Orwell Censored by the Free Press

On Finding Out that You Exist...

by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
Copyright © 2006 danwaniek.org

More than sixty years ago George Orwell wrote in The Freedom of the Press, a Preface to his political novel, Animal Farm:

“But at least let us have no more nonsense about defending liberty against Fascism. If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear...”

This Preface was censored when the book came out in 1945 and it was only published in The Times Literary Supplement on 15 September 1972. That's twenty-seven years after Animal Farm was first published.

There are only twenty-one years since the Model below was nevertheless published (censored as it were by the British Journal of Ophthalmology... ).