George Orwell's 1984 imagined a state that controlled reality by controlling information, and this film asks whether corporate consolidation of American media has produced something similar without the jackboots. Media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Ben Bagdikian, and Danny Schechter walk through the numbers: a handful of conglomerates now own most of what Americans read, watch, and hear, a concentration accelerated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The film traces how that ownership shapes what counts as news, from the run-up to the Iraq war to routine local coverage, and argues that outlets owned by defense contractors and entertainment giants have little incentive to challenge power. Interviews and archival news clips are cut against Orwell's own words, using Newspeak and doublethink as a working vocabulary for describing modern spin and omission. It is less interested in villains than in structure, making the case that a media system built around a few corporate owners produces a narrower range of permitted debate almost by design.