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  • noun Telling the truth.

Etymologies

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truth +‎ telling

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Examples

  • Still, overall the statement is the kind of truthtelling this country needs to hear, in language people will understand.

    Obama Slams White House Iraq Report 2009

  • Keep up the good work: this kind of truthtelling works slowly, and that is frustrating, but it really does work in the long run.

    Horses Mouth May 16, 2007 12:31 PM 2007

  • Rosen believes that the worst offenders in media literally care more about maintaining their innocence than their first obligation of accuracy. “Our press has an unacknowledged agenda: to advertise itself as an innocent player in politics, to show off how even-handed it is always being,” he argues. “It will put that agenda before truthtelling.

    Ari Melber: Media Blows Debt Crisis Coverage With Balance Bias Ari Melber 2011

  • But since nothing can come before truthtelling, the agenda stays hidden, repressed.”

    Ari Melber: Media Blows Debt Crisis Coverage With Balance Bias Ari Melber 2011

  • But since nothing can come before truthtelling, the agenda stays hidden, repressed.”

    Ari Melber: Media Blows Debt Crisis Coverage With Balance Bias Ari Melber 2011

  • Rosen believes that the worst offenders in media literally care more about maintaining their innocence than their first obligation of accuracy. “Our press has an unacknowledged agenda: to advertise itself as an innocent player in politics, to show off how even-handed it is always being,” he argues. “It will put that agenda before truthtelling.

    Ari Melber: Media Blows Debt Crisis Coverage With Balance Bias Ari Melber 2011

  • And the Democrats aren't sure what to think about this new, I don't know what you call it, truthtelling?

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • It is doubly important that we apply the same hard-hitting truthtelling we do on the Internet in our face-to-face interactions; because it is there that dissent is urgently needed.

    There Is Still Hope 2009

  • It is good to favor Edwards 'truthtelling, as I do, but any claim Obama can't win seems rather specious to me.

    Happy Hour Roundup 2009

  • Writing the news so that it lands somewhere near the "halfway point between the best and the worst that might be said about someone" is not a truthtelling impulse at all, but a refuge-seeking one, and it's possible that this ritual will distort a given story.

    Jay Rosen: "He Said, She Said" Journalism: Are We Done With That Yet? 2009

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