Time Magazine has named its 2018 person of the year as the ‘guardians of truth', namely four journalists who were slain or detained for their efforts in getting to ‘the truth’ of the story (Vick, 2018). Although much of the media focus and discussions on the ‘war on truth’ are attributed to President Trump’s penchant for deriding journalists and their journalism as ‘fake news’, the ‘war on truth’ is not a unique or recent phenomenon, but rather, one that has raged throughout time in particular for less powerful groups. However, the overt nature of recent attacks on the media and a constant stream of alternative facts have made the ‘war on truth’ more visible, and the global community more conscious of these issues. Concordantly, it is not only minorities whose experiences have taught them to question whose truth is being privileged and why, but a broader phenomenon with more and more people now questioning what is the truth, or whose truth is being pushed and for what purpose?

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不只是2018年的现象：``真理战争''仍在继续

《时代》杂志将其2018年度人物称为``真理的捍卫者''，即四名因努力实现故事的``真理''而被杀或被拘留的记者（Vick，2018）。尽管许多媒体对“真相大战”的关注和讨论都归因于特朗普总统偏向于将新闻工作者及其新闻报道视为“假新闻”，但“真相大战”并不是一种独特或近期的现象，而是，长期以来一直在肆虐，尤其是对于实力较弱的团体。但是，最近对媒体的攻击的公开性质和不断出现的替代事实使“实战”更加明显，国际社会也更加意识到这些问题。一致地，不仅仅是少数族裔的经历教会了他们质疑谁的真理受到特权以及为什么，