The Wire

From US Presidential tweets we have been coming to understand the term Fake News.

Dr. Kalinga Seneviratne in his  new book ‘Myth of ‘Free Media’ and Fake News in the Post-Truth Era’  argues that news media as the “fourth estate’ is basically dead as the media has become commercialised.  Free media  is in fact a myth in the age of manufacturing consent, and ‘fake news’ is a fear of the alternative.  And now  digital technology has made it possible for alternative media to challenge the mainstream media.   Dr Seneviratne is at UTS Friday 13 at the Centre for Media Transition.