Coined by Stephen Colbert, similar to the word Colbert coined on the very first episode of The Colbert Report, truthiness.

1) Truthiness is a truth that someone knows to be true with complete disregard for facts.

2) Similarly, truthinews is when a news channel reports what citizens want to hear and claims it to be true with complete disregard for facts.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods