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  • The Alternate Media have enough problems getting The Message out past the Traditional Media "prolefeed" and "duckspeak" (see:

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Wasn't it Orwell who wrote in the Tribune about the joys of putting one's feet up on the couch and reading about a good old-fashioned murder in the ultra-prolefeed News of the World, which was never really aimed at the bourgeois intelligensia (or at the rest of us who read the Guardian and would like to be intelligensia (and bourgeois if there's money in it) but didn't make the cut)?

    Charlie Brooker | Complaining about the lack of realism in EastEnders is like moaning that Monster Munch crisps don't taste of monsters 2011

  • Seems Orwell liked a bit of prolefeed just as much as the rest of us:

    Charlie Brooker | Complaining about the lack of realism in EastEnders is like moaning that Monster Munch crisps don't taste of monsters 2011

  • And yet we have the Newspeak of political correctness, the Thoughtcrime of various recent pieces of legislation that outlaw any unauthorised thoughts about religions, terrorism and anything else the government decides you should not think about, Junior Spies, the prolefeed of popular culture, and – of course – the CCTV telescreens.

    Airstrip One David Hadley 2008

  • It certainly does sometimes seem like that nowadays, where the manufactured prolefeed that passes for popular culture these days seems ubiquitous and all-consuming.

    Archive 2008-04-01 David Hadley 2008

  • And yet we have the Newspeak of political correctness, the Thoughtcrime of various recent pieces of legislation that outlaw any unauthorised thoughts about religions, terrorism and anything else the government decides you should not think about, Junior Spies, the prolefeed of popular culture, and – of course – the CCTV telescreens.

    Archive 2008-10-01 David Hadley 2008

  • They argue that us ivory tower intellectuals patronise the great unwashed by assuming that they're easily led by their daily dose of prolefeed.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Garry 2006

  • Goodfacts are now operational and must be properly presented as prolefeed to encourage goodthink duckspeak.

    Think Progress » ABC’s 9/11 Docudrama Mangles Facts, Smears Washington Post 2006

  • They argue that us ivory tower intellectuals patronise the great unwashed by assuming that they're easily led by their daily dose of prolefeed.

    Alternatives Garry 2006

  • Hence, acts such as this, by so-called leaders, who have no constituency and thus no real power beyond shuffling pyramids, contribute to the prolefeed, but affect no real change at all.

    Hip-hop mogul to visit Israel | Jewschool 2004

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