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Content: The media is
powerful as a tool for manipulation both because the public is widely
exposed to it, and also because the public trusts it. The
telescreens continuously shout bursts of news and propaganda
throughout the day, and the people listen intently and cheer at ‘good
news’ (victories) and are driven to rage by ‘bad news’. The characters in Orwell’s novel are slaves of the media; they
revere it as an oracle. When the telescreens initiate the Two
Minutes Hate, for instance, the people are roused to a frenzy: “People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at
the tops of their voices . . . [ a girl] had begun crying out ‘Swine! Swine! Swine!’” ( 16).