Off topic: Quote Investigator: Facebook and Twitter

[Jonathan Lighter]

Absotively and posilutely.

JL


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > I bet he didn't, because I bet he didn't use the word "media."
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> I bet that, if Orwell *did* use _media_, he would have written
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> "... media *tell* ..."
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> and not
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> "... media tells ..."
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