Manjoo Post

  "True Enough" focuses on what is the truth. 
  The start of the book reviews the case of three-year-old Eliza Jane Scovil.  She came down with what seemed to be a run-of-the-mill cold.  Pediatricians believed she was just like every other child her age, but they were unaware that her mother, Christine Maggiore, was tested positive for HIV.  “Maggiore had come to accept the unconventional views of a sets of activists who argue that HIV does not cause AIDS,” Manjoo writes.
  Eliza was never tested for HIV and her mother believed that taking antiviral medications would not benefit her in any way.  After Eliza died from this sudden unknown illness, her mother still did not believe HIV was a factor.      
  Autopsy results later revealed that AIDS was Eliza's cause of death.
“The death of a little girl in Los Angeles may not look immediately germane to the thesis of this book: that the limitless choice we now enjoy over the information we get about our world has loosened our grip on what is—and isn’t—true,” writes Manjoo. “What killed Eliza Jane, then, was not only a disease but more precisely the lack of notice and care for a disease—a denial even, that her condition existed. What killed her was disregard for scientific fact. It was the certainty with which her parents jettisoned the views of experts in favor of another idea, their own idea, far removed from observable reality. It was a willingness to trade in what was true for what was merely true enough.”
  Eliza's parents were in denial about her having this disease.  Maybe they just did not want to face the harsh reality.  But in reality, the truth hurts.
  Manjoo goes on to discuss that people in today's society are living in a bubble of what they want to believe over what is true.  Photos can be photo-shopped to the point where all photos can be questioned as to whether or not they are true.
  The internet is a pool of information.  Some of it true, but most of it false.  It makes it even more difficult for journalists to find the RIGHT information.  We need to check and re-check our sources of information.  Anyone can freely put anything on the internet and mark it as true.  But we live in a "post-fact" society that does not allow us to be trusting of others, despite how legit the sources appear to be.
  It will take a lot of work, but that is just part of the job for journalists in today's post-fact society.