Double Speak: Language and deception

Lutz, back in 1989, is promoting the term "doublespeak" to a mass audience so as to inform them of the deceptive qualities that doublespeak contains. Still relevant!

All who use language should be concerned whether statements and facts agree, whether language is, in Orwell's words 'largely the defense of the indefensible' and whether language 'is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.'"