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Are we living in a post-truth<\/a> world? How did modern society come to value entertainment over truthfulness? And how has looking good on camera become all that matters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neil Postman, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, <\/em>believed that we were entering a post-truth world\u2014and since this book was published in 1985, many believed we have entered this era already. Postman feared that the public cared more about the entertainment value of the news rather than the truth and relevance of the information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is how the invention of television pushed us into the post-truth era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Do We Live in a Post-Truth World<\/strong>?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the time Amusing Ourselves to Death<\/em> was written, the phrase, \u201cNow, this \u2026\u201d was commonly used on television newscasts to signal a transition to a lighter story or a commercial. However, on another level, the phrase was an acknowledgment that television\u2019s presentation of the world had no coherence or meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem is that when news is presented without seriousness, context, coherence, or rationality\u2014the criteria for judging credibility in print culture\u2014it\u2019s difficult for a TV audience to know what to believe. Here again, television has changed the meaning of both information and credibility<\/strong> and has brought about a post-truth world. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past, information was believed if it reflected reality. In contrast, on television, whether a message is deemed truthful depends on the attractiveness, authority, and authenticity projected by the presenter\/performer<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has serious implications. If credibility on television (not actual truthfulness) is what counts, politicians don\u2019t have to tell the truth\u2014they just have to appear sincere. Thus, Nixon\u2019s biggest problem wasn\u2019t lying, but looking like a liar on television. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast, Ronald Reagan, a former actor, looked good and came across as so sincere on television that his frequent distortions and misrepresentations didn\u2019t undercut his popularity or likeability<\/a>. In fact, as public interest in his presidential misstatements declined after some initial news coverage, so did further reporting on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Meaning of Being Informed<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to television, Americans may be the most entertained nation on earth, while at the same time, the least well-informed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even when events get widespread news coverage, people still know little in terms of history, context, or implications. Yet everyone has an opinion. But in today’s post-truth world, opinions are more like emotions than they are like the nuanced and informed opinions people formed in the 18th and 19th centuries<\/strong>. Polling indicates that today\u2019s opinions change, like emotions, from one day or week to the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The information Americans possess is really a type of disinformation. In the 1980s, disinformation referred to bits and pieces of misleading information spread by Soviet and U.S. spies, which created a false sense of knowledge. Disinformation is also a consequence of packaging news as entertainment. We know about<\/em> a lot of things without knowing anything in any depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there\u2019s a worse prospect than lacking good information\u2014it\u2019s no longer even knowing what it means to be well-informed. Ignorance can be remedied\u2014unless people mistake it for knowledge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accustomed to Incoherence<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Another problem when news and information are presented in discontinuous fragments is that people become accustomed to incoherence. This makes it even harder to assess the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of Reagan\u2019s misstatements were contradictions\u2014he made assertions that were mutually exclusive\u2014that is, two statements couldn\u2019t both be true in the same context. However, he got away with some contradictions (as other politicians also do) when his statements were reported as isolated fragments and not compared to each other. When statements are presented without context, contradictions disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re so used to getting information in fragments that we don\u2019t look for coherence and so, don\u2019t recognize contradictions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t Orwell\u2019s world of \u201cnewspeak,\u201d where lies are presented as truth. It\u2019s Huxley\u2019s world, where there\u2019s no need for authorities to hide information\u2014people are so distracted by a system organized for their amusement that they accept illogic and don\u2019t recognize contradictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A World of Trivial Pursuit<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We live in an information environment that could be labeled Trivial Pursuit, like the board game, where facts and news are a source of entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Television determines what form news takes and how we respond to it. In organizing and packaging news as entertainment, television influences other media\u2014newspapers, magazines, and radio\u2014to follow suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, USA Today<\/em> was modeled on the format of television: it pioneered the presentation of brief stories, color graphics, and many images. This resonated with other newspapers, which did the same thing. People<\/em> magazine became another example of a print publication echoing television by presenting news as entertainment. Meanwhile, Entertainment Tonight <\/em>and similar television programs portrayed entertainment as serious news. In a closed loop, news became entertainment in both form and content<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, radio expanded from music to entertainment by incorporating talk shows with a format that appealed to listeners\u2019 emotions and amused them with insults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nations throughout history have overcome lies, but whether a culture can survive trivialization of news remains to be seen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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