Welcome to the post-truth presidency - The Washington Post
Mother f*er. This hits a nail - Trump's ascendancy - on the head.
Quotes per the amazing Washington Post article
"Oxford Dictionaries last month selected post-truth — “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief” — as the international word of the year, and for good reason."
"The practice of post-truth — untrue assertion piled on untrue assertion — helped get Donald Trump to the White House. The more untruths he told, the more supporters rewarded him for, as they saw it, telling it like it is.
As Politico’s Susan Glasser wrote in a sobering assessment of election coverage for the Brookings Institution, “Even fact-checking perhaps the most untruthful candidate of our lifetime didn’t work; the more news outlets did it, the less the facts resonated.”
"But today we have the conjunction of a president unconstrained by facts with a media environment both siloed into partisan echo chambers and polluted by fake news. This development poses an urgent challenge — for journalism and for democracy."
"... even as... [Obama]... seeks to prove his wisdom an outmoded relic of a pre-post-truth era."
"The journalist’s challenge is not to tire in refuting the torrent of lies."
"The citizen’s challenge is to remain vigilant against the enticing lure of post-truth politics."
Mother f*er. This hits a nail - Trump's ascendancy - on the head.
Quotes per the amazing Washington Post article
"Oxford Dictionaries last month selected post-truth — “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief” — as the international word of the year, and for good reason."
"The practice of post-truth — untrue assertion piled on untrue assertion — helped get Donald Trump to the White House. The more untruths he told, the more supporters rewarded him for, as they saw it, telling it like it is.
As Politico’s Susan Glasser wrote in a sobering assessment of election coverage for the Brookings Institution, “Even fact-checking perhaps the most untruthful candidate of our lifetime didn’t work; the more news outlets did it, the less the facts resonated.”
"But today we have the conjunction of a president unconstrained by facts with a media environment both siloed into partisan echo chambers and polluted by fake news. This development poses an urgent challenge — for journalism and for democracy."
"... even as... [Obama]... seeks to prove his wisdom an outmoded relic of a pre-post-truth era."
"The journalist’s challenge is not to tire in refuting the torrent of lies."
"The citizen’s challenge is to remain vigilant against the enticing lure of post-truth politics."
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