Post -Truth
This blog is in response to the task as a part of Sunday Reading and also critical thinking of The term Post-Truth assigned by Dr. Dilip Barad sir, Department of English, MKBU. In this blog, I am going to present my understanding of the Word Post-Truth and I will also deal with some examples related to it.
POST-TRUTH WORD OF THE YEAR(2016):-
According to Wikipedia The Word of the Year need not have been coined within the past twelve months but it does need to have become prominent or notable during that time. There is no guarantee that the Word of the Year will be included in any Oxford dictionary. The Oxford Dictionaries Words of the Year are selected by editorial staff from each of the Oxford dictionaries. The selection team is made up of lexicographers and consultants to the dictionary team, and editorial, marketing, and publicity staff.
In 2004 Oxford Dictionary started to give a word of the year under the rules I described above. The word of the year 2004 was CHAV. Interestingly in 2012 the very famous word of this century, GIF, was declared as a US word of the year. In 2015 surprisingly 😂 (Face with Tears of Joy emoji) this emoji was declared as a US and UK word of the year. After the word of the year 2016 Post-truth Oxford Dictionary declared Aadhar as a Hindi Word of the year 2017. 2020 is considered a blank year in the UK and US world of the year. And the recent 2021 word of the year was vax.
Oxford Dictionary declared POST-TRUTH as a word of the year based on the Brexit referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the US
WHAT IS POST-TRUTH?
The phenomenon of "Post-Truth" rocketed to public attention in November 2016, when the Oxford Dictionaries named it 2016's word of the year. According to the Oxford Dictionary, Post-Truth is.
"Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief."
Post-Truth is a term that refers to widespread documentation of and concerns about disputes over public truth claims. Post-Truth as a contemporary phenomenon is not "What is Truth?", but "Why don't we agree that this is or that is true?" While referring to the word Post-Truth, we may, at first sight, apply the prefix Post as time after a specified situation or event. Like in post-war. But the word post-truth refers to the idea of belonging to a time in which the specified concept has become important or irrelevant.
To understand the word and its definition, we have to look at three major parts of it.
Fact: A piece of information presented as having objective reality.
Truth: The body of real things, events, and facts, the property of being in accord with fact or reality and forcing somebody to be objective truth must be a fact.
Opinion: Belief stronger than impression or less strong than positive knowledge or A view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter. Opinions are the product of one's feelings.
There are two important aspects of Post-Truth, which are spreading many fake things, which are also very important to build the Nation or Society.
Post-Truth in Politics
Post-Truth in Social media/news/journalism
Post-Truth in Politics-
Michael Deaton of The Daily Telegraph, summarising the core message of post-Truth politics, says,, “Facts are negative, Facts are pessimistic, and Facts are unpatriotic.” In the Indian context, we may add a few more adjectives to Facts: “Facts are seditious, Facts are anti-social, or anti-national, Facts disturb social harmony, or they incite hatred.”
From the very recent incident of machchhu pool in Morbi, we can clearly see that how politicians gave importance to the citizens. This article of 'saurashtra Samachar' will make this more clear-
More pityful thing is that, one side people were digging grave for their beloved ones and on the other hand civil hospital is being decorated because PM was going to see the 'half dead's' !! Here's the cutting of some news from Saurashtra Samachar.
Here I am linking an e- newspaper of Dainik Bhaskar 🗞️
*मोरबी हादसा-मातम के बीच स्वागत:*
Post-Truth in Social Media/news/journalism-
The term post-truth in journalism has been made strong by fake and irresponsible reporters and journalists like Arnab Goswami and many more corrupt journalists.
* The very known and Our favorite Shushant Singh Rajput died a few years ago and Aaj Tak News telecast or we can say published fake news of the last word of Sushant Singh Rajput that we can see in the below picture.
Due to the developments in information technologies in the last 20 years, social media is frequently used especially for mobile devices for news announcements and follow-ups. This has led to a large increase in the number of information produced, too. Considering information/news sharing pages on social media around the world and sharing/posting too much information or news, many news sources need to be verified after being accessed. There is no accurate filtering process in the dissemination of information on social media and therefore, unverifiable news can affect the masses in a very short time. Nowadays, users must check the reality of such information on social media.
Social media are very vital to spread news or facts, at the same time we can see that by the name of sharing facts, they are the main cause to spread fake news instead of fact. We are having free media but I don't think media is free. They present what is happening, not the fact behind the situation and they are even spreading lies. And whoever tries to check the truth or presents the truth is either killed or imprisoned. Let's take a very recent example of India, where a reporter is accused of checking facts and proving false news as false.
To survive in the era of post - truth only one thing which can help us is...
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