The not-so-slow death of truthiness?

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:21 AM -0400 8/17/06, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Dave Wilton wrote:
>
>>RonButters at AOL.COM
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:26 PM
>>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>Subject: The not-so-slow death of truthiness?
>>
>>LexisNexis Academinc shows 69 hits in the past six months, 3 in the last
>>month, and 0 in the past week.
>
>When I search LexisNexis, I get 239 hits in the past six months, 49 in the
>past month, and 30 in the past week.
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
Hmmm.  My search results are in line with Ron's on this; in fact I
get 2 in the last month and 60 in the last six months (Major Papers,
Full Text).  Fred, is your search somehow not via the Academic site?

LH

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