Etymology

parajournalism

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Today it means: The deceptive use of journalistic style and presentation to publish falsehoods. Full definition →

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From para- + journalism, coined by Dwight MacDonald as a criticism of Tom Wolfe in the 1960s.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.