America’s mainstream media just unveiled its latest linguistic sleight of hand — and critics say it’s straight out of George Orwell’s “1984.”
On Tuesday, conservative communications expert Steve Guest exposed what he called a “coordinated campaign” among liberal media outlets to rebrand illegal immigrants as “unauthorized immigrants.” He posted a thread on X (formerly Twitter) showing multiple outlets — including The Washington Post, NPR, Axios, and The New York Times — all parroting the same new label.
In his follow-up post, Guest didn’t mince words: “It’s straight-up Newspeak,” he wrote, referencing Orwell’s dystopian term for government-controlled language that erases inconvenient truths.
Orwell’s 1984 described a totalitarian regime that rewrote reality by shrinking vocabulary. Words were replaced with vague or distorted alternatives to eliminate dissent and shape how people think. As Guest noted, it’s the same playbook being used to sanitize language about those who cross U.S. borders illegally.
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