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Alternative Facts and True Lies
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Alternative Facts and True Lies
01/27/2017 02:10 pm ET
Gautam Adhikari
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Alternative Facts and True Lies
Its all in the narrative
By Gautam Adhikari
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
gautam-adhikari/alternative-facts--true-l_b_14440900.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/hfgn6dt
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The media are dishonest, says the new president. He accuses journalists of
going all out to challenge his assertion that millions of illegal migrants
voted in the presidential election to give his opponent a wide margin of
victory, whereas he believes it is true, says his press secretary. Its
because there are alternative facts to what the media may put out, says an
aide to the chief.
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Some say the president is delusional or an incurable egotist. But there
might be method in the madness. Is it possible most of us are completely
misinterpreting an astute tactic devised by smart strategists in or close
to the White House? The more this kind of fact-dilution continues, the
more the possibility looks likely. After all, President Trump has a few
smart people around him, notably Steve Bannon. He is by all accounts an
intelligent, highly educated adviser who has been part of the media and
may have a long view on how to disrupt and recreate public opinion. In
which case, welcome to politics infused with postmodernism.
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Alternative facts may seem an affront to common sense as well as a blatant
attempt to delegitimize evidence-backed journalism. But it fits in with a
postmodernist interpretation, prevalent in many liberal arts campuses, of
history, or rather of narratives. There are always alternative narratives
based on different readings of facts, which may all be equally valid.
Thus, scientists may pursue objective efforts to understand reality; but
reality, in the postmodern view is relative. It is constructed by the
human mind as it tries to comprehend particular and personal realities.
Facts, therefore, can always have alternatives.
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For planners of Trumps communications strategy, eroding the credibility of
the media and professional experts is probably crucial to their longterm
objective. Which seems to be to ensure a conservative dominance of
socio-political America in the foreseeable future.They already have the
famed checks and balances of the US constitutional structure tilted in
their favor. The executive is in their control; the two houses of Congress
with Republican majorities are likely to remain deferential to the needs
of the president in the foreseeable future; and the judiciary, with
numerous vacancies in federal judgeships waiting to be filled and a
soon-to-be conservative majority in the Supreme Court, is also taken care
of.
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In the media, too, there are convenient divisions. Fox News and and the
overwhelming majority of radio talk shows, along with outlets of ethically
unrestrained social media, can continue to ensure that the executive
branchs view prevails. The rest of the media, the allegedly liberal part,
can be aggressively challenged on factual reporting and evidence-based
opinion by promoting alternative narratives that can chip away at the
credibility of newspapers, TV and policy experts.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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