Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted
Did you think Fahrenheit 451 was about government censorship? Of course you are free to that opinion but it is interesting to know that the author Ray Bradbury never meant it that way. Rather, it was about the attack of television on reading.
"Television gives you the dates of Napoleon, but not who he was," Bradbury says, summarizing TV’s content with a single word that he spits out as an epithet: "factoids." He says this while sitting in a room dominated by a gigantic flat-panel television broadcasting the Fox News Channel, muted, factoids crawling across the bottom of the screen.More on the subject in the article by Amy Johnston at LA Weekly.
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