Propoganda Isn’t About Trying to Fool You
Lee McIntyre's 'Post-Truth' is a history lesson and a call to action asking liberals to defend the concept of objective truth. But is it the best approach to the problem?
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Take It Apart by the Seams: Vera Tobin on Your Brain on Fiction
“Dumb-smart stories”, fake news, serial narratives, and surprise endings: an engaging conversation about cognitive bias with author Vera Tobin.
‘Bunk’ Joins the Dots Between Barnum and Trump
Kevin Young painstakingly presents the history of hoaxes and why we keep falling for the same old shtick.
True/False Film Fest: ‘Our New President’
The next film from Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer director Maxim Pozdorovkin treats us to Russian propaganda about the United States.
It Only Looks Like Truth If You Believe It ‘Control Room’ Reminds Us
As we encounter so many broken promises, dangerous corruptions, and increasing assaults on journalism, Control Room‘s arguments about and insights into war and media only seem more acute, and tragically, lasting.