Abstract:

English novelist Orwell has questioned: "How can we know so little, given that we have so much evidence?" To this question, Chomsky steered his research in media studies. He analyzed Orwell's Problem and concluded that social institutions and political power interfered with people's cognitive ability, and that ideology blocked their perspective. He spent his life in pursuit of Plato's Problem and Orwell's Problem, which are adverse but interrelated. Orwell's Problem, which Chomsky hasn't done with, is open to be developed in two levels: the relation between the public's escape from freedom and media control, mechanism of social control in media discourse.

Key words: Orwels Problem, N. Chomsky, media control