{"id":371021,"date":"2018-07-27T06:26:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T05:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/news-networks-uniformly-use-trump-is-1984-script\/"},"modified":"2018-07-27T06:26:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T05:26:24","slug":"news-networks-uniformly-use-trump-is-1984-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/news-networks-uniformly-use-trump-is-1984-script\/","title":{"rendered":"News Networks Uniformly Use \u201cTrump Is 1984\u201d Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is being Orwellian?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>July 26, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The major US news networks all use the same talking points to encourage Americans to think and act in a way that suits the establishment, yet in a startling display of doublethink, news anchors and talking heads all uniformly declared this week that it is President Trump who is the Orwellian character.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following video complied by The Media Research Center painfully highlights how the networks all used the \u2018Trump is <em>1984<\/em>\u2018 talking point to demonise the President who was specifically advising Americans not to believe the lies and deception the mass media churns out.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars gathering Tuesday, noting \u201cThis country is doing better than it\u2019s ever done before economically, but it\u2019s all working out. And just remember, what you\u2019re seeing and what you\u2019re reading is not what\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cue the scripted responses:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/531746\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MSNBC anchor Ari Melber said \u201cTrump\u2019s blatant request that people ignore their own eyes could literally be ripped from George Orwell\u2019s famous dystopian novel\u00a0<em>1984<\/em>, which casts partisan censorship of truth as, \u201cThe party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.\u201d<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes stated \u2018Do not believe what you see or read\u2019 echoes a line from George Orwell\u2019s\u00a0<em>1984<\/em>.\u00a0\u2018The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, on air at the same time repeated the same scripted point, stating \u201cIt\u2019s what dictators, it\u2019s what authoritarian rulers say.\u00a0I mean, it\u2019s kind of unbelievable in the truest sense of the word.\u00a0It reminds me of there was a quote from Orwell in\u00a0<em>1984<\/em>, said, \u2018The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.\u2019 It certainly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/video-news-networks-uniformly-use-trump-is-1984-script.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is being Orwellian? Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comJuly 26, 2018 The major US news networks all use the same talking points to encourage Americans to think and act in a way that suits the establishment, yet in a startling display of doublethink, news anchors and talking heads all uniformly declared this week that it is President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}