Toronto Star | 11Jul2011 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/1023294--orwell-s-prescience-on-display
Orwell’s prescience on display
Re: Tabloid stops the presses, July 10, 2011
Early in George Orwell’s allegorical 1945 novel Animal Farm, we find
Farmer Brown, the slack-jawed, neglectful owner of Manor Farm, asleep
in a drunken haze beneath an open edition of The News of the World.
Orwell’s inclusion of this newspaper as a prop was, of course, no
accident; reading the disreputable rag would be totally in character
for a man like Brown.
And once again, considering the mucky scandal surrounding the trashy
British tabloid, we note how far Orwell was able to see into the future.
Orest Slepokura, Strathmore, Alta.