THE HEZITORIAL: Mayor Mike Spano Becomes Ever Proficient in Doublespeak By HEZI ARIS

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Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano’s administration has become ever more proficient in disguising the truth. They have learned to engage in Doublespeak. Doublespeak has its roots in George Orwell‘s book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Parallels have also been drawn between Doublespeak and Orwell’s classic essay Politics and the English Language, which discusses the distortion of language for political purposes. George Carlin poked fun at the ridiculousness of it all, and George Orwell observed that political language serves to ...