"Oxford Dictionaries has chosen "post truth" as its international word of the year. It defines the word as an adjective "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief""
-from an article by Tabitha Southey in Saturday's Globe and Mail.
We see this literally everywhere these days, from mainstream media on down to individual social media exchanges. It seems that truth and honesty have become things of convenience to be tossed aside when they do not support the message one is trying to convey. So much so in fact, that people are willing to accept volume and drama as measures of how believable something is. We just watched a man ascend to the presidency of the United States with a campaign based on "post truth", are we doomed to a future where superficial sensationalism is the norm on the evening news ?
-from an article by Tabitha Southey in Saturday's Globe and Mail.
We see this literally everywhere these days, from mainstream media on down to individual social media exchanges. It seems that truth and honesty have become things of convenience to be tossed aside when they do not support the message one is trying to convey. So much so in fact, that people are willing to accept volume and drama as measures of how believable something is. We just watched a man ascend to the presidency of the United States with a campaign based on "post truth", are we doomed to a future where superficial sensationalism is the norm on the evening news ?