TV can always convince the people and affect their minds.
Another similarity between TV and telescreen is about the effect of these two on the private life. In Goldstein's book it was written that the development of telescreen caused the private life come to an end. In the book we read that people are always watched in everywhere, even in their house. By using telescreen the authority could learn every personal information about a person such as his daily habit in house or. The persons that he had contact with. In the book because of telescreen Winston and Julia always behaved carefully in front of the telescreen. Because they did not want to be seen by telescreen they communicated with secret messages in papers and met a place where there was no telescreen such as an old church. Similarly today private life is in danger, especially the life of famous people such as singers. They are always followed by paparazzi or magazine reporters who try to record them secretly with their cameras while these famous people are with their friends. Everyday on TV we can watch on magazine programs who the latest girlfriend of these famous people is or whom they meet secretly. Just like Winston and Julia these people also try to not to be recorded by paparazzi so that they also meet in secret places where they think the magazine reporters can not find and record them. However they are always unsuccessful and record by the cameras secretly. In a similar way Julia and Winston was also recorded secretly by the telescreen, which was hidden behind a picture in Mr.Charrington's bedroom. The only difference between these two is that with telescreen the party watched the people but with TV the other people watch the famous people.
The second similar topic between the book and today's world is about war. In the book of Goldstein it was written that in the world of the book the aim for the war was not conquest of a country.