New book will be full of errors

First “Fake News,” now “Truthiness.”

The publisher of Jon Stewart’s million-selling “America (The Book)” is releasing a book by his former colleague, Stephen Colbert. Colbert’s book, currently untitled, is scheduled to come out in the fall of 2007 on Warner Books. A longtime fixture on Stewart’s “Daily Show,” he now hosts “The Colbert Report,” also aired on Comedy Central.

“This book will have the same noble goal as my television show: to change the world one factual error at a time,” Colbert said.

Colbert contributed to “America (The Book),” co-authored “Wigfield” with Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello, and is credited with coining “truthiness,” named Word of the Year for 2005 by the American Dialect Society. So what does it mean? It’s the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.