Saturday 18 November 2017

Post truth thinking activity.

POST TRUTH
Post truth is a new word , it has been chosen as the word of the year in 2016 by 'Oxford English Dictionary'. Post Truth is mixture of two words. 

According to oxford dictionary Post Truth means
'Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.'

If we define Post Truth in simple terms we can that Post Truth is a fact but not a real truth it is just the 'created truth' by person specially by media.
So, we can say that whatever media shows to the ordinary persons, it may not be the 100% pure and real truth. In other words Post Truth is a kind of rumour among the society and consider/believe as a truth.

For example,
nowadays the matter of Hardik Patel's sex CD is in the centre of the media in India. Now, we can say that this matter can be put into the definition of Post Truth. Because no one knows the reality about that, this CD may be the crated one(political stunt) or it might be the real also. Here, ordinary people of society does not know the reality so it is the truth from the perspective of media and some political parties but it is a Post Truth from the perspective of ordinary people of India because it is consider as a real clip among those who opposes Hardik but is believes that this created or a dummy CD to corrupt or spoil Hardik's political image among those who are the supporter of Hardik.
At the end it is difficult to say that is tgis matter going to be the truth or not???

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