Correct!

Right at the moment the mainstream media is full of articles, mostly opinion pieces, that are deploring the ‘false-truth’ phenomenon.

No one is suggesting that Donald invented false truths, but they are blaming him for the first wide-scale & successful political deployment of the concept (outside of China, Russia, South America, Africa, the Middle East and every vaguely non-democratic authoritarian state that has ever existed).

None of these articles carry a disclaimer that says something like this: “The author is paid by the New York Times which is currently at war with Donald Trump due to certain remarks that he has made, which add to the general air of non-viability of our business model.”

Which is to say, while the broadcast media doesn’t make up false truths, they happily ignore real ones.

And when they want to cast aspersions, well then they call in their opinion piece writers and wash their hands of the contents.

When they want a specific result, they beat up unimportant facts.

In the long run, the creation of multiple channels of communications to the unwashed can’t be anything but a good thing.

Given that most folks couldn’t tell a false-truth from an ignored one or an exaggerated one, the best possible situation is competing truths.

Eventually even the slowest of the slow will start assigning probability factors to all information received.

In truth (my truth, this is an opinion of course) most people simply believe what suits them, and, even if their lives depended upon it, they couldn’t explain why some truths are more amenable than others.