AP story on truthiness short on factiness
This is pretty egregious: the Associated Press published a story about how the American Dialect Society chose the word “truthiness” as the 2005 Word of the Year…but it neglected to mention the origin of the word. Seriously! As any Fishbowl reader knows, the word “truthiness” entered the lexicon via “The Colbert Report” in its very first episode.
The American Dialect Society knows this – they mention it on their blog (incidentally, “blog” was a Runner-Up Word of the Year in 2002, narrowly beat out by “WMDs” and “Google” as a verb).
“Truthiness”
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