REVIEW: Exposing reality about the mythic ‘age of truth’ Review of Myth of ‘Free Media’ and Fake News, and Mindful Communication for sustainable Development, by Kalinga Seneviratne...

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Beteiligte: Robie, David
In: Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 26, 2020, 2, S. 295-297
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Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library
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Umfang: 295-297
ISSN: 2324-2035
1023-9499
DOI: 10.24135/pjr.v26i2.1148
veröffentlicht in: Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa
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Kollektion: Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>Myth of ‘Free Media’ and Fake News in the Post-truth Era, by Kalinga Seneviratne. New Delhi, India: Sage. 2020, 348 pages. ISBN 9789353881276&#x0D; Mindful Communication for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Asia, edited by Kalinga Seneviratne. New Delhi, India: Sage: 2018, 353 pages. ISBN 9789352805518&#x0D; POST-TRUTH? Was there ever really such a thing as the Golden Age of Truth as trumpeted by the liberal Western press? According to Kalinga Seneviratne in his latest challenging book, quite simply ‘no’. In some countries, such as New Zealand, fake news and the manipulation of half-truths and disinformation has been dismissed as a by-product of the Trump era in the White House and the Brexit debacle.</jats:p>