re: Gaslighting - Most vague phrase ever?

Gaslighting is when someone knows/observes the truth/reality and someone else purposely ignores that reality and tells you really there's a different reality.


Comes from a movie where a husband would slowly dim a stair gaslight each day, and then his wife would notice its dimmer making a comment to her husband to which he would feign ignorance even though he knew damn well it was dimmer. It was a psychological game ands she didn't question him because she trusted him. Even though she could observe with her own eyes the truth that the light had been dimmed, her husband still lied to her face about it.


Our news networks do the same to their constituents. They are granted a certain level of trust and will abuse it by lying and misrepresenting the truths even if those people can see the lie with their own eyes.