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The post-truth world of the Trump administration is scarier than you think
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-post-truth-world-of-the-trump-administration-is-scarier-than-you-think/2016/12/02/ebda952a-b897-11e6-b994-f45a208f7a73_story.html?utm_term=.4c1840ba20f0by Margaret Sullivan
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So, how should Trumps statements during the campaign have been covered? Should reporters have added something like this in the second paragraph of every news story? Trump probably didnt mean that he would appoint a special prosecutor/build a wall/deport millions of immigrants. His statements are not meant to be taken literally but rather as broad suggestions of a feeling he was experiencing on a particular day.
There was more from the Harvard event. When CNNs Jake Tapper asked Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway about the same election-fraud claim discussed above specifically, whether disseminating misinformation was presidential it was clear that she and Hughes got the same memo.
Hes the president-elect, so thats presidential behavior, Conway said, using mind-bending pseudo-logic, reminiscent of the Nixonian When the president does it, that means that its not illegal.
These surrogates disdain for facts should not be surprising, given Trumps own casual relationship with verifiable truth.
Its time to dust off your old copy of 1984 by George Orwell and recall this passage: The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.
And be vigilant.
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The post-truth world of the Trump administration is scarier than you think (Original Post)
swag
Dec 2016
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lunasun
(21,646 posts)1. When you control language you can control people easier
I hope there will at least be chocalate
This is way worse than Nixon IMO
Blue Shoes
(220 posts)2. There are a few bright spots.
The media does seem to be catching on a little bit. I've read several articles in mainstream news sources were they explicitly state Trump is lying about which ever topic/ he said something completely unfounded.
The only hope is that this is persistent and people catch on to the con.