Truthiness hits Ghana

Fri Jan 20 18:53:57 UTC 2006

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=97898

The main function of the media is to report the news and the news in
Ghana is generally about government activity and ideology. The Media
mirrors this activity! and ideology. Quite apart from the Ministry of
Information and Ghana News Agency, a powerful Private Media, Audio and
Print, are the sources of news reportage.

A panel of linguists from the American Dialect Society selected
"TRUTHINESS" as the word of the year for 2005. They defined
"TRUTHINESS" as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes
to be true, rather than the facts. Is the Ghanaian Media full of
TRUTHINESS in their reportage on Ghana's political scenery?

--Ben Zimmer

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The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org