The medium itself now produces truth rather than reflecting it.

Evidence

TV verite. A term admirable in its ambiguity, does it refer to the truth of this family or to the truth of TV? In fact, it is TV that is the truth of the Louds, it is TV that is true, it is TV that renders true. Truth that is no longer the reflexive truth of the mirror, nor the perspectival truth of the panoptic system and of the gaze, but the manipulative truth of the test that sounds out and interrogates, of the laser that touches and pierces, of computer cards that retain your preferred sequences, of the genetic code that controls your combinations, of cells that inform your sensory universe. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 106

Categorization

• XREF: Directly inverts the panoptic model of Discipline and Punish; the reader’s project comparing Baudrillard’s deterrence-system against Foucault’s surveillance-system is here centered. — connects to: Journalistic objectivity is a recent convention enabling shared trust markers rather than actual truth. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 74; Media convergence can constitute reality rather than merely representing it. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 19; Technical performativity now shapes what counts as scientific truth. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 344 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Texts shape the reality they claim merely to describe #corroborates (0.93) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 262
• Media convergence can constitute reality rather than merely representing it. #corroborates (0.90) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 19
• Journalistic objectivity is a recent convention enabling shared trust markers rather than actual truth. #qualifies (0.82) — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 74
• Technical performativity now shapes what counts as scientific truth. #exemplifies (0.80) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 344
• Instrumentalizing communication has destroyed our sense of truth itself #expands (0.78) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 378
• Ideology now operates by repetitious photographic reality rather than argued meaning #contradicts (0.72)