Extended Essay - Reflection Space

Here is my finished abstract. Politicians are officials who are meant to keep the country moving on, progressing, conquering the next frontier. Nowadays however, they deem to do what favors and progresses themselves. As Orwell said himself: “politics is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia” (.  George Orwell’s essay on the “Politics and the English Language” presents a connection between the “political chaos” and the “decay of language”. From several texts, Orwell exhibits the disputes seen and presents solutions to them. These include: dying metaphors, operators or verbal false limbs, pretentious diction and meaningless words.  This extended essay aims to analyze: “What elements from George Orwell’s ‘Politics and the English Language’ can we find in the right winged media in the United States political speeches?” This analytical process has been divided into different stages and sources of right wing media and political speeches. I have investig...

I have to decide whether to write about my original idea - what elements from George Orwell's essay can be seen in the right wing media - or fake news. Both seem very interesting to me but I feel as if fake news is still new to me and I may not be as comfortable writing about it as I would about the media. My supervisor suggested to write about fake news, would be easier for me. FAKE NEWS RESEARCH From a local point: Jerzy Targalski, a polish historian and publicist stated that there are fake news websites that had infiltrated Poland though right wing sources that had copied the concept from Russia Today. I have done some other research but still don't know what my focus will be. Why we have it? It's language and how it manipulates us? RIGHT WING MEDIA I have been doing more research for this topic, specifically on Trump. Here is one of Trump's tweets. His use of capital letters is interesting, perhaps reflecting his anger and spreading fear. His ...