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Oxford Dictionaries has declared "post-truth" as its 2016 international word of the year, reflecting what it called a "highly-charged" political 12 months. It is defined as an adjective relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than emotional appeals. Its selection follows June's Brexit vote [in the UK], and the US presidential election. Post-truth, which has become associated with the phrase "post-truth politics", was chosen ahead of other political terms, including "Brexiteer" and "alt-right".
[...] Oxford Dictionaries says post-truth is thought to have been first used in 1992. However, it says the frequency of its usage increased by 2,000% in 2016 compared with last year.
Mr Grathwohl said: "Fuelled by the rise of social media as a news source and a growing distrust of facts offered up by the establishment, post-truth as a concept has been finding its linguistic footing for some time," he said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37995600
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2016
Would you have chosen something different?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by TheRaven on Friday November 18 2016, @11:15AM
For fucks sake, I read all sorts of media, from Al Jazeera to RT/Pravda to BBC to FoxNews, And I haven't seen too much lying, even from the more hardcore propaganda sources
You might want to add The Daily Express to those if you want something a bit more blatant. That said, all of the sources you list appear in my news feeds too and it's quite interesting which stories they'll run and which they won't. It's also interesting who they'll go to for expert quotes: even when trying to be fair and balanced, having two respected experts from one side of the debate and some generic no-name on the other is quite common. Even without directly lying, and even when they do cover a story, one will leave you thinking that it's a minor matter another that it's the end of the world, or one that it's a great day for justice and the other that it's the rise of tyranny.
Facts are important, but facts without context can be just as misleading as outright lies. If I report that a nurse cut someone's throat with a penknife in the middle of a high street, what's your reaction? Now if I tell you that person was dying because a bee sting had caused his throat to swell and the emergency tracheotomy saved his life, does your reaction change?
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