His experience at the BBC became unlikely source material for Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell is said to have based Room 101 on a conference room at Broadcasting House where he attended staff meetings.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Orwell statue
According to the Telegraph, the BBC does not want a statue of George Orwell, a former BBC journalist, outside because "It's far too Left-wing an idea." That's kind of hilarious by itself, but this bit was wonderful:
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So because Orwell remained a socialist, the BBC considers that honoring him would be too left-wing. That's quite frightening, that they don't know that the USSR was his model for 1984 and Animal Farm. But I am not unfamiliar with it. I recall lefties becoming wide-eyed in 1980 that Reagan might win because it seemed to fulfill Orwell's property. I was a lefty then myself, but couldn't convince people they'd missed the point.
That would be, uh, "prophecy."
And the worst thing in the world is in the staff conference room.
Brrrr -- gives me shivers just to remember meetings. It's a wonderful part of my new life that I practically never have to endure them.
The BBC finding Orwell too leftist is something I can scarcely grasp. I'd have been less surprised if they'd found him too anti-leftist. Who can fathom why some intellectual lights are in and some are out?
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