Understanding hot and cool media - Chapter 8

How social media has reverted society to a tribalistic oral tradition transforming the analog era of written books and newspapers

The truth is there, still bleeding and still changing shapes on that cold surgery table as we dissect it. It is very hard to grasp it and it is beginning to look like fake-news, post-truth, alternative facts and truthiness are still suspects, but the nature itself of the crime is now in doubt. Even worse: the identity of the victim becomes more uncertain.

Not only we have seen that truth and facts are not necessarily the same thing. But we have learned that facts become news only through the opinion of those in charge of deciding what’s news — journalists, a definition which includes