From: mattfaunce@gmail.com   
      
   George Orwell, from his (non-fiction) essay, Looking Back on the Spanish   
   War.   
      
   "I remember saying once to Arthur Koestler, 'History stopped in 1936', at   
   which he nodded in immediate understanding. We were both thinking of   
   totalitarianism in general, but more particularly of the Spanish civil war.   
   Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a   
   newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which   
   did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is   
   implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had   
   been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been   
   killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and   
   traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes   
   of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies   
   and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that   
   had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of   
   what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various   
   'party lines'."   
      
      
   --   
   Matt   
      
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