... For media outlets/ pundits/ commentators to be using???
It legitimises what is basically lies and propaganda, by suggesting "post truth" goes beyond truth in at best an ambiguous, at worst a positive way, with the subtle subtext that it could be a better reality....
Egs of "post truth" politics - the election of trump. Brexit. The Assad/ Russian response to Aleppo criticism.
None of these are "good things"- and all are egs of dangerous right wing campaigns based on repressing truth, spreading misinformation and bamboozling the public. So should we be sanctioning this atrocious abuse of power/ media / social media by calling it a symptom of the "post truth" era - or calling it what it is- lies?
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To think "post truth" is an incredibly dangerous phrase...
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MoreBushThanMoss · 19/12/2016 22:34
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