 The Chicago Tribune published an editorial in its January 16 , 2006 issue titled " The Truthiness Hurts " , crediting the rise of truthiness as serendipitously providing an apt description of the Oprah Book Club controversy over James Frey 's fictionalized " memoir " , A Million Little Pieces . Truthiness was also used to describe the controversy over the factual accuracy of Frey 's book by USA Today in its January 15 , 2006 issue , by several other publications including The New York Times , and by the television news program Nightline on its October 23 and January 26 editions . 
