What are some similarities between Oceana (1984) and America now?

The greatest similarity I see is the control of information.  Although some may wish to discuss this, I believe that in our last election the media presented only one side of the picture, the traditional liberal side, and not many people seemed to mind. Since Obama's election, he has gotten softball after softball.  Our present stimulus package hasn't gotten any real evaluation in the media, and, more importantly, wasn't even available to us before the vote took place

This is, in part, because there is now so much information available to us that it's almost impossible to verify it.  I heard an interesting example this morning.  In a poll about the 3 greatest presidents in our history, Lincoln, Kennedy and Regan were selected.  What happened to the old trio of Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt?  Washington was clearly our most important president, yet he was not even listed in this poll.  Of course, this was just a poll, but you have to wonder what information people had to make them select Kenney, who doesn't have a great record of achievement) over Washington and Roosevelt.

It was probably easy to contol information in Oceania; there weren't that many sources that had to be "corrected."  Today's there's so much we still don't know what is "true."

I think we're a lot closer than we know.