These people believe there's a truthfulness in film-making, and the more truthful you can be, the more truthful the movie.
From an ethical perspective, the integrity of the reportage and the verisimilitude of the expressed reality matters more than the truthfulness of the final product.
Linguist and OED consultant Benjamin Zimmer pointed out that the word truthiness already had a history in literature and appears in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), as a derivation of truthy, and The Century Dictionary, both of which indicate it as rare or dialectal, and to be defined more straightforwardly as "truthfulness, faithfulness".
Those allegations are intended and tailored to rally the troops, who are believed to care more about truculence than truthfulness.
If the "megalomania" of Rosenfield's title trades rather archly on the so-called Freud wars, alluding to the notion that Freud's will to power was a little more pressing than his truthfulness, it is also a tribute to Freud as someone who saw the self consumed by its appetite for self-deception.
Which freedom is profound and therefore more needed for (peacefulness) truthfulness?
Still more ironically, the truth-squad techniques of recent journalism, in which TV reporters assess the truthfulness of negative ads, is probably backfiring.
It is about giving voters more information to evaluate the truthfulness of an ad's claims.
Nonetheless, as a philosopher of transcendence, he was also clear that human truthfulness, or humanity more generally, cannot be conceived without a recuperation of religious interpretive approaches and without a recognition of the fact that the founding contents of philosophy are transcendent.
