Seldom is the illustration of Orwell’s words so vivid. Above, a screen shot from the New York Times‘s front page today. Notice that the 50 Americans who died were “musicians and law students, parents and pilots,” whose “varied lives ended on a cold, foggy night,” and that five of them are illustrated with flattering photographs; whereas the report from Pakistan tells us that “Missiles from pilotless drones killed up to 32 people, including Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters.” Were their lives “varied?” Were “musicians, law students, parents, and pilots” among those killed? Was it cold and foggy in the mountains of South Waziristan?