‘Post-truth’: a myth created by journalists?

Post-truth: how bullshit conquered the world by James Ball Post-truth: the new war on truth and how to fight back by Matthew d’Ancona John Lloyd has already reviewed these two books better than I could have done. I share his view that the existential threat of ‘fake news’ is sometimes exaggerated and that we’ve been in informational crises before. If Hillary Clinton had won the electoral college and if one in twenty Leave voters had stayed at home, then I wonder if these books would have been published. This is essentially a liberal moral panic. But as Rahm Emanuel said, ‘never let a serious crisis go to waste”.