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What the media provides - maximal language to constrain your thinking (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

newspeak

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'thinking' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'what the media provides maximal language to constrain your' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'maximal' could be 'peak' (similar in meaning) and 'peak' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'news' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for newspeak that I've seen before include "Deliberately ambiguous (Orwellian) language" , "Propaganda language in nineteen eighty-four" , "tongue used to spin?" , "language of politicians, perhaps" , "fictional language" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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