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Oxford Dictionaries 2016 "Word of the Year:" POST-TRUTH

post-truth adjective

Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.


Tongue-in-cheek Colbert Report: "Truthiness"

Slate.com: Can you Believe it? (what a news media literacy class should teach)

In this article, a newspaper or magazine is referred to as ‘legacy’ media or ‘old media’

The Big 6 aligned with Common Core (Common Core and evidence based reasoning)