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Post-truth: Refl ections on the Source and History of the News

Yuwei Pei

Abstract


Taking media ecology as a research perspective, this paper analyzes the causes and main characteristics of the Post-truth phenomenon from the perspectives of objective reality, media reality and audience reality. The analysis of Post-truth should be interpreted from a historical perspective. Starting from the source of news, the content briefl y combs through the history of news development and analyzes the current situation of journalism. From the context of historical development, the causes and characteristics of Post-truth will be discussed and refl ected, and relevant suggestions will be put forward to add dimension to the discussion of Post-truth .

Keywords


Post-truth; Media environment; Journalism; Mass media

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i5.7366

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