SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL REASONS FOR IDIOCRACY BECOMING A NEW MEDIA STANDARD
SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL REASONS FOR IDIOCRACY BECOMING A NEW MEDIA STANDARD

Summary/Abstract: The term post-truth era has been known in global media environment for some time. As society, we are gradually getting used to the fact that a large part of media recipients have become completely resistant to accepting media contents created by the so-called mainstream media. The lack of confidence in professional journalism based on factual information does not have to be the biggest problem. However, the problem might be the form and sources of information that this distrustful part of society absorbs instead of verified information and the consequences that such behaviour of a non-negligible proportion of population might have on the whole society. On the following pages, we will try explain clearly, what are the, mainly psychological, reasons for the rise of the era of idiocracy, where qualification and professionalism no longer matter

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