People hear about political issues all over the news and form their own opinions about them, but are they really deciding their own beliefs or are they just believing whatever the media tell them? Due to modern media biases, many people do not think independently, even when they think they do. They simply believe the lies the media feeds them and do not research the issue to get an accurate idea of ​​what is really happening and how the control of information will impact the world around them. Because of people's tendency to accept any information that is shoved down their throats, the United States is slowly moving into the same government-controlled, freedom-free world as in George Orwell's book 1984. In 1984, many people believed that whatever their government said was true even though common sense would tell them it wasn't. Two plus two equals four, yet all the brainwashed Party worshipers believed the Party when they said it equaled five despite no evidence to prove this as an accurate statement (Orwell 80). The Ministry of Truth was tasked with turning facts into lies, even going so far as to rewrite history so that people would have no trace of what had really happened in the first place. An example of rewriting history is when they made people believe that capitalism was bad. The capitalists owned everything in the world and everyone else was their slaves. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories and all the money. If anyone disobeyed they could throw him in prison, or take away his job and starve him to death. When an ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to make himself small and bow before him, take off his cap and address him... middle of the paper... heb. November 10, 2013.MediaInfluenceOnSociety.html>.Garrett, William. “News channels are biased, impartial.” The spectator. WordPress, October 4, 2012. Network. November 11, 2013. are-biased-unbiased/>. “Harvard Study: Gun Control Is Counterproductive.” The American Civil Rights Union.Harvard, 2013. Web. November 13, 2013..Nasowitz, Dan. “Every six hours, the NSA collects as much data as is stored in the entire Library of Congress.” Popular science. Np, 10 May 2011. Web. 31 October 2013.uch-data-stored-intera-library-congress>.Orwell, George. 1984:. New York, NY: Signet Classic, 1950. Print.