It was to video recording what digital cameras were to photography, turning something expensive and requiring deliberate intent into something cheap and impulsive.
Orwell rightly detested double-talk, cheap euphemism, and deliberate obscurity — the language of "strategic hamlets" and "enhanced interrogation," and all the other phrases that are used to muddy up meaning.
A scholar's cautious, detailed, convincing account of the deliberate framing of information carriers, from cheap postage to privatized electronics (telegraph, telephone, radio) to saturation by movies, networks and magazines.
They're keen on provenance, too: namechecking Jimmy's Farm and St John Bakery, plus a deliberate distancing from the kind of cheap, hormone-pumped US beef that has polluted other burger chains.
Here are some he might try out, next time he's caught fiddling on a cheap app while his colleagues deliberate America's role in a crisis of extraordinary global seriousness.
It all boiled down, he writes, to "a calculated and deliberate response to high British wages and cheap British coal," which led inevitably to steam power and labor-saving technology.
The point is that this is cheap, politically motivated stuff, motivated by a deliberate desire to mislead.
PMRs were perceived to provide rapid cheap treatment for non-serious conditions and used as a deliberate and continuously evaluated choice between different treatment sources.
But they have usually been attributed to a failure to anticipate an inflationary surge, rather than the result of a deliberate decision.In this section Down the slipway Mutiny over the bounty Nominally cheap or really dear?
The speed with which Asian Tigers like Taiwan and South Korea developed from 1960 onward was the result of deliberate diplomatic actions to stimulate innovations, complemented by strategies of multi-national companies seeking advantages of a well-educated but relatively cheap labour force.
