(Not so) white lies : "rapists," "bad hombres" and Donald Trump's conflation of "Mexicans" with "illegal immigration" during an era of declining migration from Mexico / Justin D. Garcia -- The irony at the heart of fake news and alternative facts / Robin Blom -- "Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some assembly required." Donald Trump's war on journalism / Jim Clarke -- Departing from the truth and alternative realities : the wrongful death of Marvin Booker / Sig Langegger -- Sophistry redux : mythology and ancient rhetoric reborn in the Trump age / Andrew Grossman -- On faith/trust and confidence in an alterfactual sense / Sabatino DiBernardo -- What is a politician? / Christopher W. Thurley -- Of crowd sizes and casualties : the ominous similarities between Trump-era America and wartime Japan in the abuse of alternative facts / Sean D. O'Reilly -- Wild Irishmen, alternative facts and the construction of America's first "wall" / Debra Reddin van Tuyll -- The alternative electorate : mapping trumped-up claims of voter fraud in the 2016 election / Jacopo della Quercia -- Speaking post-truth to power : comedy as alternative facts in Saturday Night Live / Melanie Piper -- The oven that cooked up Pizzagate : 4chan's politically incorrect board and alt-right conspiracy culture / Jeffrey J. Hall -- From Mary Tyler Moore to Kellyanne Conway : constructing a synthetic media environment / Terri Toles Patkin.
Summary:
"This volume seeks to shed light on the social, cultural and political disruption that accompanies a loss of faith in the facts that have served to ground the realities of our lived experiences. Chapters range from observations about the fragility of fact within the Trump Administration to how facts have been subject to abuse and manipulation in history"-- Provided by publisher.
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