ADS's "truthiness" vote makes NYMag

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:08:37PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> 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."

I just realized that the Approval Matrix is now online--I thought
it hadn't been in the past--so all that description was unnecessary.

http://www.nymag.com/nymetro/arts/approvalmatrix/15539/index.html

Jesse Sheidlower

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