Post-truth: too good to be true
In the conditions of news redundancy, the need for attitude is much more pressing than the need for news. Attitude precedes meaning in the ‘use-value’ of news supply by the media. The supremacy of attitude over meaning is an interesting postmodernist phenomenon: post-truth, actually, is pre-truth. The picture of the world - as-it-should-be always a... See more
Andrey Mir • Post-truth: too good to be true
When facts are already known but are worrisome, factual reporting is no longer needed, and it must turn into evaluative commenting.
Within this media environment, the audience generally wants the media to validate or invalidate what it already knows and to scare readers with what they are already scared by. The media must confirm that the scare is l... See more
Within this media environment, the audience generally wants the media to validate or invalidate what it already knows and to scare readers with what they are already scared by. The media must confirm that the scare is l... See more