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The word of the year for 2006 is "truthiness."The word if one can call it that best summed up 2006, according to an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster."Truthiness" was credited to Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, who defined it as "truth that comes from the gut, not books."

• sloppy spinning

  (Score:2) by GregS* (2813) <greg@shush.ws> on Monday April 16, @07:19PM (#29556)
  ( http://www.shush.ws/ | Last Journal: Wednesday June 13, @04:43PM ) http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/319.pdf
  I got it from here: http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/nextmayor/20 07/04/i_am_taking_from_this_that_rea.html

  2. The O'Reilly Factor is listed along with the Daily Show and Colbert Report, so isn't Rush Limbaugh.

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  Greg McClay - greg@shush.ws - www.shush.ws
  

• I don't regularly watch either...

  (Score:2) by mdoneil (2301) <lisnewsNO@SPAMoneil.cx> on Monday April 16, @10:20PM (#29559)
  ( http://oneil.cx/WP | Last Journal: Wednesday July 18, @06:22PM ) I don't watch either often, but I don't watch the Colbert Report at all because, well because I heard it was a comedy show pretending to be a news show or some such nonsense. I frankly don't have the time.

  I did however watch Fox news this evening to hear about the VT shootings. Half an hour in a month or so for Fox.

  Oh, and I'm smarter than you.

  --
  "Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."

• Re:I don't regularly watch either...

  (Score:1) by Anonymous Patron on Tuesday April 17, @09:26AM (#29572) ...but you do have time to post comments about them. Am I the only one who sees the irony? [ Parent ]

• Re:I don't regularly watch either...

  (Score:2) by mdoneil (2301) <lisnewsNO@SPAMoneil.cx> on Tuesday April 17, @12:26PM (#29584)
  ( http://oneil.cx/WP | Last Journal: Wednesday July 18, @06:22PM ) Perhaps because I'm not watching TV. Yes it seems you are the only one who sees any irony. Have a nice time all by yourself over there. --
  "Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." [ Parent ]

• Cherrypicking Watch

  (Score:1) by ddurant (5933) on Tuesday April 17, @05:05AM (#29564)
  ( http://hereticallibrarian.blogspot.com/ ) Just to pile on a bit more, the same study shows Rush Limbaugh listeners to be better informed than CNN viewers (No, I don't listen to Rush). So the original post involved just a little cherrypicking.