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[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I bet he didn't, because I bet he didn't use the word "media."


I bet that, if Orwell *did* use _media_, he would have written

"... media *tell* ..."

and not

"... media tells ..."
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