True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society - Farhad Manjoo - Google Books

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Why has punditry lately overtaken news? Why do lies seem to linger so long in the cultural subconscious even after they’ve been thoroughly discredited? And why, when more people than ever before are documenting the truth with laptops and digital cameras,…