Post-fact world

[Seabag]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Salsaboy Wrote:

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> > What do you mean, 'the earth is round'?

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> > DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > > Ha Ha Ha Ha.... Ha Ha Ha Ha..

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> > > They all laughed at Christopher Columbus

> > > When he said the world was round

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> I have never said the World is round. The World

> (Earth) is an Oblate spheroid..

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> 1-2-3-4-5.. waits for comments from usual

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> Foxy.

Now youre being silly, and at risk of being sillier.

(answering the world recession question, with some fact based evidence would dilute that)

So, to redeem the situation, please answer that question.

[Earl Aelfheah]

As the number of 'content providers' has increased (and so the competition between them), the need to grab people's attention as quickly and with as few words as possible has also accelerated. This has lead to more and more sound bites, memes and click bate headlines. This dumbing down of the public discourse across the media, especially new media opens the field to demagogues like Farage and Trump who know instinctively how to play by the new rules of the game.

[Earl Aelfheah]

....see also people like Katie Hopkins

[Jenny1]

I'd agree rahrahrah. Anyone who doesn't do balance, complexity or detail does well in this context.

[????]

Some facts:

UK pulled out of recession in last quarter of 2009 (yes, 7 years ago)

USA in June 2009

China didn't have a recession after the financial crash (nor Australia)

Japan was in recession last year

Germany pulled out of recession in the first quarter of 2011

The post fact world on the internet means some idiot can post up that there's a global recession going on based on absolutely nothing other than his idiotic opinion and the unfortunate fact that he can type.

[JohnL]

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> Some facts:

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> UK pulled out of recession in last quarter of 2009

> (yes, 7 years ago)

> USA in June 2009

> China didn't have a recession after the financial

> crash (nor Australia)

> Japan was in recession last year

> Germany pulled out of recession in the first

> quarter of 2011

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> The post fact world on the internet means some

> idiot can post up that there's a global recession

> going on based on absolutely nothing other than

> his idiotic opinion and the unfortunate fact that

> he can type.

I suppose some people might wonder why the BOE is still doing

Quantitative Easing if the economy is so good

and I don't know the answer :)

[????]

where do you get 'so good' from John L? - low growth is just above the relegation zone but it's not a recession.....

[JohnL]

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> where do you get 'so good' from John L? - low

> growth is just above the relegation zone but it's

> not a recession.....

'So good' being my way of saying just about OK :)

I agree it's not a recession but service sector dominates - manufacturing not so.

[P.O.U.S.theWonderCat]

True but since when has whether you're in a recession or not had anything to do with whether the GDP comes from primary or secondary industries?