Post-truth

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Post-truth applies to statements, situations and arguments where facts are subordinated or subjected to obfuscation in pursuit of desired intepretations/outcomes.

The term Post-Truth was added to the Oxford English dictionary in 2016. The entry is as follows:

Adjective

Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief:

"in this era of post-truth politics, it's easy to cherry-pick data and come to whatever conclusion you desire"
"some commentators have observed that we are living in a post-truth age" [1]


Craig Murray wrote in 2016 that the "Mainstream media is not post-truth. It never had any connection to the truth."[2]

 

Related Quotation

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Consensus trance“Nine tenths of the news, as printed in the newspapers, is pseudo-news. Some days ten tenths. The ritual morning trance in which one scans columns of newsprint creates a peculiar form of generalised pseudo-attention to pseudo-reality... My own experience has been that renunciation of this self-hypnosis, of this particiption in this trance is not a sacrifice of reality.”Thomas Merton1968
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