"It's a bad day for Truthiness and Bookmaker," he said.
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"Keto has this sort of 'truthiness' and contrarianism," she says.
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He just hadn't yet stretched his own limits of truthiness.
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"It's a bad day for Truthiness and Bookmaker," Lester told BuzzFeed.
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Truthiness was a pale, wan forebear of Trump's pathology, distilled in Spicer's inauguration boast.
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"Truthiness is a humorous way of discussing a quality of specific claims," she said.
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Many of their articles have a taste of truthiness but spread mis–or dis–information.
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The political truthiness has been flying thick and fast on this subject for decades now.
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The Gang tackles the fake news pandemic with a requiem for truthiness scheduled for January 20th.
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It was basically bunk, but it had an aura of "truthiness" that still lingers with us today.
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Some claimed these comedians contributed to the very "fake news" and "truthiness" they'd set out to satirize.
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As Colbert explained, truthiness is the quality of preferring gut feelings and emotions to logic and facts.
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Stephen Colbert might have come up with term "truthiness" — something that feels true, even if it isn't.
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Facebook has been pretty clear that it won't police the truthiness of political ads on its platform.
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You know their record of truthiness is spotty and I would just like to test that premise, right?
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"Truthiness was from the gut, but Trumpiness clearly comes from much further down the gastrointestinal tract," Colbert said.
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They are content with what Stephen Colbert, an American comedian, calls "truthiness": ideas which "feel right" or "should be true".
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These Related Articles will show alternative takes on the same topic by different news sources, or truthiness reports from fact checkers.
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Bush mixes fact and fiction, bringing to mind the "truthiness" Stephen Colbert coined to describe the Bush administration's shaky relationship with reality.
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Regardless of the numbers, it's definitely more minds unprepared to challenge his authority on the past and willing to swallow his truthiness.
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" It means just what is sounds like, and is a logical heir of the word of the year from exactly one decade ago — "truthiness.
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"I'm no fan of dictionaries or reference books: they're élitist," Stephen Colbert said in 2005, when he coined "truthiness" while lampooning George W. Bush.
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It is important to remember that the reality underlying most press releases falls somewhere in a truthiness continuum between padded resume and Soviet economic pronouncement.
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The unfortunate result of that sort of "truthiness" is a numbness that begins to develop around the things he says that are simply not true.
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On top of which, it was Colbert, years ago, who coined the term "truthiness," pointedly exposing — and skewering — politicians' self-servingly cavalier relationship with reality.
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But it's as if the Trump administration had solved the problem of reconciling his new comedy with his old by making truthiness America's official language.
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From Herodotus's myths being spun into Roman history to George W. Bush's "Truthiness," it's not clear when we might ever have lived in a "truth" era.
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Sanders and Trump are not so much straightforward liars as candidates with personalities that seem perversely truth-averse, though Trump clearly has the lead in truthiness.
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And yet knowing that the truth has been embroidered doesn't precisely explain the lack of "truthiness" (to quote Stephen Colbert) I felt while reading Moore's book.
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And of course as Stephen Colbert has taught us for a dozen years, the difference between believing and feeling has become allied: It's all truthiness in America.
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Stephen Colbert unveiled the word "truthiness" on the pilot episode of his show "The Colbert Report" in 2005, and the word quickly caught on with the public.
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A decade ago, the comedian Stephen Colbert introduced viewers to the idea of "truthiness," a quality belonging to claims that were based on gut feelings instead of facts.
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Adapting James Frey's infamously fictionalized memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," the director Sam Taylor-Johnson niftily elides the book's truthiness problem with an introductory quotation from Mark Twain.
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Appearing before someone reads, Related Articles will surface links to additional reporting on the same topic to provide different view points, and to truthiness reports from the fact checkers.
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At first blush, mucoid plaque has a ring of truthiness about it but I soon learn that it's a pseudo scientific term coined by naturopath and entrepreneur Richard Anderson.
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They have what Stephen Colbert calls "truthiness" or sociologist Arlie Hochschild calls the "deep story" — the stories are a way of explaining the world that feels true to Trump's supporters.
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As we move towards eventually annotating the entire internet for truthiness, Washington Post reporter, Philip Bump, has created a Chrome Extension to fact check our President Elect's notoriously dodgy tweets.
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Beginning with the first episode, Mr Colbert championed the term "truthiness", or telling things "from the gut" without the need for inconvenient facts (a word Mr Colbert put in quotation marks).
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But there's at least one story that the US can't afford to let slide into the muck of conspiracy theories, fake news, and truthiness: whether the Russian government hacked America's election.
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But the truthiness on the subject of trade agreements was flying even thicker and faster from the others, from Sanders last spring, from Trump — and, again, earlier, from Perot and Buchanan.
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But it does, Ms. Martin said, reflect a step past "truthiness," the Stephen Colbert coinage that Merriam-Webster and the American Dialect Society each chose as its word of the year a decade ago.
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As greater numbers of citizens lose their trust not just in institutions from government health agencies to grounded journalism, we seem to become more focused on truthiness than on a skeptical relationship with reliable data.
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And the nature of the problem—that the post-truth strategy works because it allows people to forgo critical thinking in favour of having their feelings reinforced by soundbite truthiness—suggests that such effort may not be forthcoming.
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It's almost at the point where "truthiness" — Stephen Colbert's old word for the from-the-gut canards that helped to lead to the Iraq war — would be preferable to what we have now: unsubstantiated nonsense and outright lies.
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Writing for the Columbia Journalism Review last month, the critic Lee Siegelargued that Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart helped create the culture of fake news that led to Trump's rise—that "truthiness" gave way to the post-truth era.
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The chain-letter model actually bolsters the truthiness of the claim since Facebook users are more directly telling their friends that Zuckerberg will delete Facebook if they don't share this video—which is completely fake—with many of their friends.
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This brilliant and timely work asks what it means to live in a post-factual world of 'truthiness' where everything is up for interpretation and everyone is subject to a contagious cynicism that damages our ideas of reality, fact, and art.
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Those who predict that the confrontation with Mueller could be devastating -- setting up a dangerous clash between the President's "truthiness" problem and the stringent requirements of the law -- downplay how much of the investigation really depends on politics, not law.
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Those prosecutors share a common background: a professional tradition of intellectual and evidentiary rigor and burdens of proof, a strong moral sense — the polar opposite of the president's unique blend of mushy, transactional, in-the-moment, muddy truthiness and whataboutism.
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Though a couple of them are before my time — I didn't really get active in the WOTY proceedings until 2005 (the year of "truthiness") — I'm happy to kibitz in my capacity as Chair of the New Words Committee for the ADS.
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We have no good long-term data on whether "truthiness" abounds any more now that it did during the Vietnam War, during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, or during the 19th century's period of "yellow journalism," Dartmouth political science professor Brendan Nyhan pointed out.
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In its second and weaker half, the film becomes a modernist fable, a kind of multiple-choice question that, in the light of today's ambiguous moral climate rife with terms like truthiness, alternative facts and fake news, throws the past into shadowy half-light.
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What happens next is anyone's guess, but a follow-on story in Bloomberg didn't reflect well on Hampton Creek's board, which was reportedly warned by the successful entrepreneur and investor Ali Partovi that the company might have a truthiness issue, to steal from comic Stephen Colbert.
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It is, however, also necessary to look to such images as a reminder that evil has long been done in the name of national interests and that photography was as suspect at its inception as it is today, in the age of fake news and truthiness.
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Indeed, in a direct satire of Fox News, Stephen Colbert identified these tendencies in his very first episode of The Colbert Report in 2005, as he coined the term "truthiness" to refer to information that feels like it should be true rather than actually being truthful.
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But in this election, truthiness has become fully weaponized by social media, with Facebook awarding coveted blue check marks to partisan accounts on the right and left, and lending them an air of credibility despite the fact that they have no responsibility to separate truth from fiction.
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The trick is not to get flustered in the moment that your debate partner brings up a theory or nugget of truthiness that you haven't encountered before, such as a reference to the medieval warm period (irrelevant) or the allegation that the planet is actually cooling (nope).
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Merriam-Webster even crowned a version of the term as its own word of the year in 2006, which went to Stephen Colbert's "truthiness" (or "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true").
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While propagandizing has long been a key facet of Fox's business (Stephen Colbert debuted his own Fox News host alter ego, in dedicated pursuit of "truthiness," all the way back in 2005), the situation is clearly getting worse: the lies deeper, its always-tenuous commitment to "Fair and Balanced" unraveling further.
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That clip, from the very first "Colbert Report" in 2005, is most famous for Colbert's invention of the word "truthiness," which was itself so perspicacious and so apt a made-up word to describe the preference of politicians for only approximations of the truth, rather than the real thing, that it was chosen "word of the year" by dictionary publisher Merriam Webster.
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The Chicago Tribune published an editorial in its January 16, 2006 issue titled "The Truthiness Hurts", crediting the rise of truthiness as serendipitously providing an apt description of the Oprah Book Club controversy over James Frey's fictionalized "memoir", A Million Little Pieces. Truthiness was also used to describe the controversy over the factual accuracy of Frey's book by USA Today in its January 15, 2006 issue, by several other publications including The New York Times, and by the television news program Nightline on its October 23 and January 26 editions. Oprah Winfrey also discussed truthiness with Frank Rich on her show, in reference to the Frey controversy and the column "Truthiness 101" Rich had recently published in The New York Times. They also mentioned Colbert's role in making the word "truthiness".
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Many dictionaries (e.g. American Heritage , Merriam-Webster, New Oxford Dictionary of English, etc.) offer definitions for trustiness. The New York Times again discussed "truthiness" in its issue of December 25, 2005, this time as one of nine words that had captured the year's zeitgeist, in an article titled "2005: In a Word; Truthiness" by Jacques Steinberg. In crediting truthiness, Steinberg said, "the pundit who probably drew the most attention in 2005 was only playing one on TV: Stephen Colbert".
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Stephen Colbert uses "truthiness" on the debut episode of The Colbert Report Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts. Truthiness can range from ignorant assertions of falsehoods to deliberate duplicity or propaganda intended to sway opinions. The concept of truthiness has emerged as a major subject of discussion surrounding U.S. politics during the 1990s and 2000s because of the perception among some observers of a rise in propaganda and a growing hostility toward factual reporting and fact-based discussion. American television comedian Stephen Colbert coined the term truthiness in this meaning as the subject of a segment called "The Wørd" during the pilot episode of his political satire program The Colbert Report on October 17, 2005.
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On January 27, MSNBC ran a commentary titled "Oprah strikes a blow for truthiness: Do facts really matter? Ask Winfrey, James Frey or Stephen Colbert", making the case that Winfrey's about-face on Frey's book was a "small (and belated) but bold nudge back out of the proud halls of truthiness", but also opportunistic and too little too late.
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He lost the same category to Tony Bennett in 2007 and Don Rickles in 2008. In January 2006, the American Dialect Society named truthiness, which Colbert coined on the premiere episode of The Colbert Report, as its 2005 Word of the Year. Colbert devoted time on five successive episodes to bemoaning the failure of the Associated Press to mention his role in popularizing the word truthiness in its news coverage of the Word of the Year. On December 9, 2006, Merriam-Webster also announced that it selected truthiness as its Word of the Year for 2006.
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In 2006, Liberal Party of Canada leadership contender Ken Dryden used truthiness as an extensive theme in a speech in the House of Commons. The speech dealt critically with the Harper government's Universal Child Care Plan. Dryden defined truthiness as "something that is spoken as if true that one wants others to believe is true, that said often enough with enough voices orchestrated in behind it, might even sound true, but is not true." The transcript of all debates in the House (Hansard) is made available in both official languages; the translators into French chose to render "truthiness" as fausse vérité ("false truth").
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In 2006, Merriam-Webster received a lot of publicity as 'truthiness', a word coined by Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report, topped the list.
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Colbert Brings Truthiness to '08 Campaign . E!. Retrieved on 2007 – 20-10. Colbert's candidacy had met mixed reviews,Staff (October 27, 2007). Colbert Nation.
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At the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Colbert, the featured guest, described President Bush's thought processes using the definition of truthiness. Editor and Publisher used "truthiness" to describe Colbert's criticism of Bush, in an article published the same day titled "Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner—President Not Amused?" E&P; reported that the "blistering comedy 'tribute' to President Bush... left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close" and that many people at the dinner "looked a little uncomfortable at times, perhaps feeling the material was a little too biting—or too much speaking 'truthiness' to power". E&P; reported a few days later that its coverage of Colbert at the dinner drew "possibly its highest one-day traffic total ever", and published a letter to the editor asserting that "Colbert brought truth wrapped in truthiness".
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Hultrans, Andrew. "Surf and Turf," Artforum, Summer 1998, p. 134.Stallings, Tyler. Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture, Riverside, CA: California Museum of Photography, p. 41–42.
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In 2012, a study examining truthiness was carried out by PhD student Eryn Newman of Victoria University of Wellington. The experiments showed that people are more likely to believe a claim is true regardless of evidence when a decorative photograph appears alongside it. Also in 2012, Harvard University's Berkman Center hosted a two- day symposium at Harvard and MIT, "Truthiness in Digital Media", exploring "concerns about misinformation and disinformation" in new media. The Truthiness Collaborative is a project at USC's Annenberg School "to advance research and engagement around the misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and other challenges to discourse fueled by our evolving media and technology ecosystem".
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ABC News. Retrieved on 2007 – 20-10. While Colbert's motivation remains unclear, his campaign to "bring truthiness to the '08 race" remained popular.Serpe, Gina (October 17, 2007).
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For example, in Colbert's "Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando" the word "Veritasiness" can be seen on the banner above the eagle on the operation's seal. Truthiness was named Word of the Year for 2005 by the American Dialect Society and for 2006 by Merriam-Webster. Linguist and OED consultant Benjamin Zimmer pointed out that the word truthiness already had a history in literature and appears in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), as a derivation of truthy, and The Century Dictionary, both of which indicate it as rare or dialectal, and to be defined more straightforwardly as "truthfulness, faithfulness". Responding to claims by Michael Adams that the word already existed with a different meaning, Colbert said: "Truthiness is a word I pulled right out of my keister".
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'Except,' he said, 'people got hurt this time.'" On January 14, Clark herself responded in an article titled "Exclusive 'News' – I'm dead to Stephen Colbert". She furthered the rise of "truthiness" in published English in conceding, "Truthiness be told, I never had seen The Colbert Report until my name graced its 'Dead to Me' board this week... But I will say that I watched Colbert's show for the first time... It was funny. And that's not just truthy.
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"Moral complexity: The fatal attraction of truthiness and the importance of mature moral functioning." Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(2), 163-181. She emphasizes the importance of early experience in shaping moral capacities.
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The Colbert Report premiered in October 2005. The first guest was Stone Phillips, a partial influence on the character. In the debut episode, Colbert coined the word truthiness, defined as "a quality characterizing a 'truth' that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively 'from the gut' or because it 'feels right' without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts." Truthiness was named Word of the Year for 2005 by the American Dialect Society and for 2006 by Merriam-Webster.
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In response to this omission, during "The Wørd" segment on December 12, 2006, Colbert issued a new page 1344 for the tenth edition of the Merriam Webster dictionary that featured "truthiness". To make room for the definition of "truthiness", including a portrait of Colbert, the definition for the word "try" was removed with Colbert stating "Sorry, try. Maybe you should have tried harder." He also sarcastically told viewers to "not" download the new page and "not" glue it in the new dictionary in libraries and schools.
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In December 2009, the BBC online magazine asked its readers to nominate suggestions of things to be included on a poster which would represent important events in the 2000s (decade), divided into five different categories: "People", "Words", "News", "Objects" and "Culture". Suggestions were sent in and a panel of five independent experts shortened each category to what they saw as the 20 most important. Among the nominations selected in the "Words" category was "Truthiness". As a result, the word "Truthiness" appeared in the poster.
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The Associated Press reported on the American Dialect Society's selection of truthiness as the Word of the Year, including the following comments by one of the voting linguists: > Michael Adams, a professor at North Carolina State University who > specializes in lexicology, said "truthiness" means "truthy, not facty". "The > national argument right now is, one, 'Who's got the truth?' and, two, 'Who's > got the facts? he said. "Until we can manage to get the two of them back > together again, we're not going to make much progress.
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Colbert refreshed "truthiness" in an episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on July 18, 2016, using the neologism "Trumpiness" regarding statements made by Donald Trump during his presidential campaign. According to Colbert, while truthiness refers to statements that feel true but are actually false, "Trumpiness" does not even have to feel true, much less be true. As evidence that Trump's remarks exhibit this quality, he cited a Washington Post column stating that many Trump supporters did not believe his "wildest promises" but supported him anyway.
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"Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle," Collection. Retrieved June 27, 2019.Armstrong, Elizabeth. "On the Border of the Real," in More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness, by Elizabeth Armstrong, London/New York: Prestel Publishing, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Site Santa Fe, 2012.
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Retrieved July 7, 2010. In a January 2006 appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, commenting on the James Frey memoir scandal, Rich expanded on his usage in his column of the term truthiness to summarize a variety of ills in culture and politics.Transcript of interview (January 26, 2006). "Journalists Speak Out".
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On the same weekend, The Washington Post and others also reported on the event. Six months later, in a column titled "Throw The Truthiness Bums Out", The New York Times columnist Frank Rich called Colbert's after-dinner speech a "cultural primary" and christened it the "defining moment" of the United States' 2006 midterm elections.
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" On each of the first four episodes of the Report after the selection of truthiness as Word of the Year, Colbert lamented that news reports neglected to acknowledge him as the source of the word. On the first of these episodes, he added Michael Adams to his "On Notice" board, and Associated Press reporter Heather Clark, the author of the article, to his "Dead to Me" board: > "You see, the Associated Press article announcing this prestigious award, > written by one Heather Clark, had a glaring omission: me," Colbert said > during his show Monday. "I'm not mentioned, despite the fact that truthiness > is a word I pulled right out of my keister." Later Adams admitted the "absolutely hilarious" nature of the show and said he couldn't "think of any greater honor than to be placed on Colbert's 'On Notice' board," and that he "owes Colbert thanks.
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Clips from The Wørd are also included, such as Truthiness and Wikiality, and some of Colbert's better-known interviews, such as Bill O'Reilly, Willie Nelson, Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem. Other segments featured include Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger, The ThreatDown, Colbert's "Green Screen Challenge" and subsequent lightsaber battle with George Lucas and the "Meta-Free-Phor-All" with Sean Penn.Wu, Annie (October 28, 2007). The Best of the Colbert Report - DVD review.
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Three large-scale works employing technical processes of data gathering, modeling and fabrication connect science and political power. Cloud Prototype No. 1 (2003) used atmospheric data to create a gargantuan, amorphous titanium-alloy and fiberglass sculpture capturing the fleeting form of a thundercloud;Hoffman, Irene. "Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle," in More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness, by Elizabeth Armstrong, London/New York: Prestel Publishing, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Site Santa Fe, 2012. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
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By using this as part of his routine, Colbert satirized the misuse of appeal to emotion and "gut feeling" as a rhetorical device in contemporaneous socio-political discourse. He particularly applied it to U.S. President George W. Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court and the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Colbert later ascribed truthiness to other institutions and organizations, including Wikipedia. Colbert has sometimes used a Dog Latin version of the term, "Veritasiness".
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On January 13, the first day after the four-day run of criticism of the AP on the Report, the AP ran a story about The Colbert Report being upset about being snubbed by the AP, in an article titled "Colbert: AP the biggest threat to America". As he has in the past, Colbert remained in character in an interview for the story, and used it to further the political satire of truthiness; excerpts of the story are: > "When an AP story about the designation sent coast to coast failed to > mention Colbert, he began a tongue-in-cheek crusade, not unlike the kind his > muse Bill O'Reilly might lead in all seriousness." It's a sin of > omission...' Stephen Colbert told the AP on Thursday...' It's like > Shakespeare still being alive and not asking him what Hamlet is about,' he > said." "The Oxford English Dictionary has a definition for 'truthy' dating > back to the 1800s...' The fact that they looked it up in a book just shows > they don't get the idea of truthiness at all,' Stephen Colbert said > Thursday.
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An anecdote is a short and amusing or interesting story about a biographical incident. It may be as brief as the setting and provocation of a bon mot. An anecdote is always presented as based on a real incident involving actual persons, whether famous or not, usually in an identifiable place; whether authentic or not, it has verisimilitude or truthiness. Over time, modification in reuse may convert a particular anecdote to a fictional piece, one that is retold but is "too good to be true".
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Stephen Colbert interviewing Four-Star General Ray Odierno. The Colbert Report, which premiered in American cable television on October 17, 2005, has had a massive cultural impact since its inception, when the show introduced the word "truthiness". Issues in and references to American and world culture are attributed to the character played by Stephen Colbert, who calls his followers the Colbert Nation. The Colbert Report is a late-night talk and news satire television program hosted by Stephen Colbert that aired on Comedy Central from October 17, 2005 to December 18, 2014 for 1,447 episodes.
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On October 16, 2007, satirist Stephen Colbert (in the guise of his character) officially announced that he would run for President of the United States. This came after weeks of being pressured to do so by the public and stating that he would need a sign, which came from Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) giving him the sword Anduril. Although the legitimacy of his campaign was questioned,McCarthy, Caroline (October 17, 2007). Stephen Colbert announces presidential bid, but is it the truth or truthiness?. CNET. Retrieved on 2007 – 20-10.
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In its issue of October 25, 2005, eight days after the premiere episode of the Report, The New York Times ran its third article on The Colbert Report, "Bringing Out the Absurdity of the News". The article specifically discussed the segment on "truthiness", although the Times misreported the word as "trustiness". In its November 1, 2005 issue, the Times ran a correction. On the next episode of the Report, Colbert took the Times to task for the error, pointing out, ironically, that "trustiness" is "not even a word".
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'You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your > gut. "Though slight, the difference of Colbert's definition and the OED's is > essential. It's not your typical truth, but, as The New York Times wrote, 'a > summation of what [Colbert] sees as the guiding ethos of the loudest > commentators on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN. "Colbert, who referred on his > program to the AP omission as a 'journalistic travesty,' said Thursday it > was similar to the much-criticized weapons of mass destruction reporting > leading up to the Iraq War.
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In a July 2006 episode of the satirical comedy The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert announced the neologism "wikiality", a portmanteau of the words Wiki and reality, for his segment "The Wørd". Colbert defined wikiality as "truth by consensus" (rather than fact), modeled after the approval-by-consensus format of Wikipedia. He ironically praised Wikipedia for following his philosophy of truthiness in which intuition and consensus is a better reflection of reality than fact: > You see, any user can change any entry, and if enough other users agree with > them, it becomes true. ... If only the entire body of human knowledge worked > this way.
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After Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally in Washington, D.C., a user on Reddit suggested that Colbert hold his own Restoring Truthiness rally, and a website and Facebook page for the event were set up overnight. A big announcement was first hinted at by Jon Stewart on September 7, who ended the show with a Moment of Zen supposedly holding a clue about the announcement. On the same day, Colbert acknowledged the online movement. He played a clip of Beck saying the geese at his event were sent by God, and insisted that he would need his own God geese to tell him to hold a rally.
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Manon Mathias and Alison M. Moore (eds), Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture. New York: Palgrave, 2018. : The phrase "gut feeling" may also be used as a shorthand term for an individual's "common sense" perception of what is considered "the right thing to do", such as helping an injured passerby, avoiding dark alleys and generally acting in accordance with instinctive feelings about a given situation. It can also refer to simple common knowledge phrases which are true no matter when said, such as "Water is wet" or "Fire is hot", or to ideas that an individual intuitively regards as true (see "truthiness" for examples).
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He has further gone on to ascribe "truthiness" to other institutions including Wikipedia, which he believes upholds his view that reality can be determined by consensus opinion, and often encourages viewers to use Wikipedia to "change reality". Colbert believes that if a majority of people want something to be true, that thing therefore must become the truth. For instance, after months of scoffing at global warming, Colbert suddenly reversed his position, conceding its existence only due to the box office success of An Inconvenient Truth, a sign that "the free market has spoken". Colbert describes himself as racially color-blind and unable to visually identify a person's race,Pastorek, Whitney (2007).
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The Wørd is a frequently recurring segment during which Colbert chooses a word or phrase as a theme for a rant on a topical subject or news item, while messages displayed in a sidebar either highlight or sarcastically undercut what he is saying. This segment is a parody of The O'Reilly Factor segment Talking Points Memo and can also be likened to Mark Hyman's The Point conservative commentaries for Sinclair Broadcasting Group's former News Central concept. The Wørd was the longest running segment on the Colbert Report, having been a feature since the first episode on October 17, 2005. The first "The Wørd" was the originator of the now famous word/concept Truthiness.
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According to Wired, which first broke the story on 13 August 2007, most edits were "fairly innocuous". Wired asked users to submit "The most shameful Wikipedia spin jobs", which generated many news stories about organizations, such as the Al- Jazeera network, Fox News Channel, staffers of Democratic Senator Robert Byrd and the CIA, that had edited Wikipedia articles. On August 21, 2007, satirist Stephen Colbert who had long featured stories about Wikipedia and its "truthiness" on his program mocked WikiScanner creator Virgil Griffith's ambivalent stance on anonymity on Wikipedia, declaring it the "right" of corporations and governments to participate in the democratic process of deciding what is and is not true on Wikipedia.The Colbert Report.
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" Miers wrote just one word in response: "No." Robert Schenck had access to Harriet Miers during her brief Supreme Court nomination and took exception that she was attending St. John's Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C. rather than a local chapter of the more fundamentalist Church of Christ as she had done back in Texas. The news of the nomination and Bush's support of Miers' nomination in part inspired satirist Stephen Colbert to create the term "Truthiness," meaning to know things intuitively without regard for evidence. Colbert said in the guise of his character on The Colbert Report: Following the October 3 nomination of Miers for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court by President George W. Bush; then Ohio Senator Mike DeWine stated that "I think the fact she doesn't have judicial experience will add to the diversity of the Supreme Court.
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Votes were accepted on their website, and according to poll results, "truthiness" won by a five-to-one margin. Colbert at Knox College In June 2006, after speaking at the school's commencement ceremony, Colbert received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from Knox College. Time named Stephen Colbert as one of the 100 most influential people in 2006 and 2012 and in May 2006, New York magazine listed Colbert (and Jon Stewart) as one of its top dozen influential persons in media. Colbert was named Person of the Year by the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado on March 3, 2007, and was also given the Speaker of the Year Award by The Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) on March 24, 2007 for his "drive to expose the rhetorical shortcomings of contemporary political discourse".
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As a response to Glenn Beck's August 28, 2010, Restoring Honor rally, in September 2010 Reddit users started a movement to persuade satirist Stephen Colbert to have a counter-rally in Washington, D.C. The movement, which came to be called "Restoring Truthiness", was started by user mrsammercer, in a post where he described waking up from a dream in which Stephen Colbert was holding a satirical rally in D.C. Over $600,000 was raised for charity to gain the attention of Colbert. The campaign was mentioned on-air several times, and when the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear was held in Washington, D.C. on October 30, 2010, thousands of redditors made the journey. During a post-rally press conference, Reddit co-founder Ohanian asked, "What role did the Internet campaign play in convincing you to hold this rally?" Jon Stewart responded by saying that, though it was a very nice gesture, he and Colbert had already thought of the idea and the deposit for using the National Mall was already paid during the summer, so it acted mostly as a "validation of what we were thinking about attempting".
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