HBO’s ‘After Truth’ Perfectly Captures Why Journalism is Dying

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Hollywood In Toto

Documentary ducks reality, obsesses over Trump's election

Christian Toto

Mar.19 2020

A talking head in HBO’s documentary tackling Fake News says the quiet part out loud.

“The worst part of 2016 is what we did to ourselves,” Georgetown University “disinformation expert” Molly McKew says about the subject in hand, revealing, well, everything.

We’ve seen the mainstream media, along with Hollywood and the Democrats, throw a three-plus year long tantrum over Donald Trump’s electoral victory.

Three-plus years!

And, given the very existence of “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News,” it’s not over yet.

 

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At first glance, “After Truth” is a timely effort showing why our already low opinion of journalism cratered following Trump’s election. Instead, the film avoids that reality while punching so far down it might reach China before the end credits roll.

Did you know Infowars anchor Alex Jones was a fraud? That he makes stuff up while peddling nutritional supplements? What about how people use Facebook to share obviously false stories that, sadly, some take as the Gospel truth?

Thank you, “After Truth.”

Not only does the documentary state the obvious. It does so over and again. Anything is better, apparently, than diagnosing the rot infesting journalism today.

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