SOSC 4000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Lie, Alternative Facts
23 Apr 2019
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It is perhaps necessary to note the difference between the post-truth" label and fake news" despite the lines of interconnection. Post-truth" is a self-consciously grand term of epochal shift. One concerning the degree of prevalence of the false" within the news ecology and another concerning the use of the term by governments to denounce news accounts which conflict with their own publicity. The trump phenomenon is perhaps finally more about false speech" (or tweets) than it is about fake news", thereby connecting with the history of political lying (well reviewed in. Jay, 2010) but it has effectively commandeered the latter label for the purposes of an ultra-conservative defence against scrutiny and criticism. Discrepancies could be explained by alternative facts. Massive over-coverage of some things plays against under-coverage or no coverage of others, as the media research agenda internationally has conclusively established. This is not a situation in which firm lines of definition or evaluation can always be drawn.
