Fake news pundit Stephen Colbert “added a made-up word to the lexicon of political journalism” in 2005, the New York Times’ Year in Review says.
The word was truthiness, “which Mr. Colbert intended as a summation of what he sees as the guiding ethos of the loudest commentators on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN.”
“Truthiness is sort of what you want to be true, as opposed to what the facts support,” Mr. Colbert said in a recent interview. “Truthiness is a truth larger than the facts that would comprise it — if you cared about facts, which you don’t, if you care about truthiness.”
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