ADS's "truthiness" vote makes NYMag

[Jesse Sheidlower]

New York Magazine, in their culture pages, have a
browser[1]-friendly "Approval Matrix" in every issue, where
they divide most of a page into a graph ranging from Lowbrow
to Highbrow and from Despicable to Brilliant, and sprinkle
various cultural (etc.) events in appropriate places. So, for
example, in this week's issue, the far upper right corner, for
Brilliant and Highbrow, is "Robert Adams's stark landscapes at
Matthew Marks Gallery"; the Highbrow - Despicable corner is
"The estate of Jean-Michael Basquiat signs a deal with Reebok
for a new shoe called the 'Reebopper'"; in a position just to
the Highbrow side of the central Lowbrow/Highbrow line and
just to the Brilliant side of the central Despicable/Brilliant
line is "The adorable new 39-cent stamps", illustrated with a
picture of the Olivia stamp (great children's book series).

And, just edging into Brilliant territory and deep into
the Highbrow half, is "The American Dialect Society declares
_The Colbert Report_'s 'truthiness', or an affinity for
fact-free truth, 2005's word of the year."

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

[1] That's a "human browser", to use a retronym.

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