Why was this chosen? The concept of ‘post-truth’ has been in existence for the past decade, but Oxford Dictionaries saw a spike in frequency in 2016 in the context of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States. It has also become associated with a particular noun, in the ‘phrase post-truth ..
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May 2016: Trump links Cruz’s father to Kennedy assassination ‘It’s not proof’ The National Enquirer hired photo experts who say Rafael Cruz appears in images with Oswald taken in August of 1963, a few months before Kennedy’s death. In August 1963, Oswald was working on behalf on a pro-Castro group Fair Play for Cuba Committee ..
Shah Nawaz Mohal – writing from Pakistan Mankind: A tragicomedy “Our civilization has become a place where even the basic facts about everything under the sun are disputed, stats are unreliable, twisted and the truth is exiled to a land from where no soul returns. Since, we humans are in habit of naming things to ..
2020 should be like the real 1984, but instead we’re getting the Orwellian version The economy is actually in better shape than it was under President Reagan. There may be no official Cold War, but we’re pressuring our enemies in Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea in ways that are in line with the pressure ..
“Pacific Catholic leader to speak on the poor, climate change and the threat of rising tides” A CHURCH leader who [claims that he] has witnessed Pacific villagers forced from their coastal homes because of rising sea levels is to celebrate Mass in Brisbane next month, and will speak about the poor, the vulnerable and the ..
Boris Johnson and post-truth politics Mahmut Övür writes: “The second lie was during the Brexit campaign, he ‘lied’ that ‘Turkey, with its 76 million people, will become a member of the EU’ – which was very influential in the Brexit vote. The Western media defines this feature of his character as ‘A classic Boris Johnson’. ..
Putin’s lies scrubbed from Yuval Noah Harari’s new book A bestselling author came under fire Wednesday after the Russian edition of his book on disinformation and ‘fake news’ scrapped all references to lies President Vladimir Putin has told. The Russian-language version of Yuval Noah Harari’s ’21 Lessons for the 21st Century’ replaced a paragraph criticizing ..
“…All the Rest Is Advertising” Who is the originator of this quote? George Orwell? Alfred Harmsworth? William Randolph Hearst? L. E. Edwardson? Robert W. Sawyer? Mark Rhea Byers? Brian R. Roberts? Malcolm Muggeridge? Katharine Graham? Lord Rothermere? Lord Northcliffe? Anonymous? “Whatever a patron desires to get published is advertising; whatever he wants to keep out ..
The Best of President Reagan’s Humor “Best of President Reagan” Source: Reagan ..
‘Post-truth’ should not be the word of 2016 According to Oxford Dictionaries the word for which 2016 will be remembered is ‘post-truth’. the term was coined in 1992, in an essay by the late Serbian-American playwright Steve Tesich [and] its use increased by 2,000 per cent this year[2016]. Before Tesich wrote his essay it referred ..
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