Mentir es la nueva verdad: la posverdad en la comunicación

Abstract

The present article demonstrates how the media in many occasions did not perform an exhaustive coverage on the information it disseminates to the public. Said the above, first, sometimes by political sectors, the information manipulated for the convenience of each situation, which is effective that the phenomenon of post-truth was developed (false news). The second part shows that it is negative that the owners of the companies in Colombia are the owners of the media. And finally, social networks, the tool that causes an unfavorable effect to inform on issues of social situation because it has no greater control than what is published on the web. As a conclusion, yes, information is a pillar of democracy, because being misinformed the forms of government that each country leads; That is why the media are challenged to return to old communication practices to better exercise said work. The authors who will give academic support to the article will be: Carl Sagan, Ocampo, Freire, Koulouvari, Sartori, Palomares, Kaplun, Habermas, Garrido, Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky.