Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
— 1984
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
Where this quote comes from
Orwell wrote this in The Lion and the Unicorn, his 1941 essay on England and socialism. He calls the English press deeply dishonest in normal times, yet doubts that a single English paper could be bribed outright with cash. The censorship he describes is quieter: newspapers depend on advertisers, and advertisers shape what counts as news.
Source: The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), Part I, "England Your England", section III
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