Hiding The Truth In Animal Farm By George Orwell

People do not know how to tell the difference between the truth and lie when exploring the media or hearing someone talk about something. Not everything people see online can be trusted. Hiding the truth can be very easy when you make the lie more believable or persuasive. When something is announced publicly, either over a phone, email, magazines and other places where information spreads to the people, it is bound to be believed because it is over such a large community. In George Orwell’s allegorical novel, Animal Farm there is a pig named squealer, who is the symbol for the media. He tells the animals in the farm information which at times is not true, or would exaggerate some details. After the successful rebellion against Mr.Jonas, the name of the farm, Manor Farm, was changed into Animal farm. The pigs of the farm make themselves the government or rather leaders of the farm, because they claim to be more educated than the other animals. Squealer is a symbol for the media because he announces, to the animals of the farm, about events or news if some sort. Because he is at such a position, the animals are bound to believe everything he says. Two things, the animals have nowhere else to go to get any
An example of this would be when he is telling the other animals that the pigs should be the one to eat the apples and milk, because the “pigs are brainworkers (Orwell 52),” and others things like if they did not eat