George Orwell’s Animal FarmIllustrated by Ralph Steadman
by Maria Popova
“I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.”

Accompanying Steadman’s illustrations is Orwell’s proposed but unpublished preface to the original edition, titled “The Freedom of the Press” — a critique of how the media’s fear of public opinion ends up drowning out the central responsibility of journalism. Though aimed at European publishers’ self-censorship regarding Animal Farm at the time, Orwell’s words ring with astounding prescience and timeliness in our present era of people-pleasing “content” that passes for journalism:/.../
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