Thread: Clichés and George Orwell's Six Elementary Rules
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Old 04-05-2013, 12:28 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by barutanseijin View Post
I just read a contrarian take on Orwell's rules in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The author took issue with his first commandment. 'Elimination of the fittest' she called it. Or something close to that.
But you can see what happens when people don't follow that rule in about 90% of today's journalism: Survival of the tritest.
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