truthiness in canada
On October 17, 2005, The Colbert Report comedian Stephen Colbert coined the word "truthiness."
Here is how Merriam-Webster defines it:
truthiness (noun)
1 : "truth that comes from the gut, not books" (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," October 2005)
2 : "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true" (American Dialect Society, January 2006)
On January 10, 2011, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released a Broadcasting Notice of Consultation which could legitimize truthiness on Canadian airwaves.
The current wording is broad:
[Media outlets are prohibited from broadcasting] any news that the licensee knows is false or misleading.
The proposed change is an addenum to the previous statement:
[Media outlets are prohibited from broadcasting] any news that the licensee knows is false or misleading and that endangers or is likely to endanger the lives, health or safety of the public.
Here is a petition just in case you think we should stick to the original wording.
Keep Canadian Media Honest - Don't Let The CRTC Deregulate Truth in Journalism Petition
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