In a powerful speech, journalist Scott Pelley condemns the dangerous tactics used to undermine journalism and academic institutions, likening contemporary assaults on truth to historical examples of oppression. He discusses lawsuits against media companies and actions against university personnel as strategies employed to instill fear and censor dissent. Pelley likens the current environment to George Orwell's concept of Newspeak, emphasizing how those in power manipulate language and narratives to obscure reality, casting diverse ideas as threats while rewriting history to serve their interests.
First, make the truth seekers live in fear. Sue the journalists and their companies for nothing! Then, send masked agents to abduct a college student who wrote an editorial in her college paper defending Palestinian rights. And send her to a prison in Louisiana charged with nothing!
This is an old playbook, my friends. There's nothing new in this. George Orwell... warned us about what he called Newspeak... He understood that ignorance works for power.
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