Meanings
plural slow news days
- journalismA time when media organizations publish trivial stories due to the lack of more substantial topics.
1 more example
Perhaps you have seen a television news program on a slow news day. In place of international crises, press conferences, congressional hearings, and proclamations by the mayor, the news may consist of a trip to the zoo to visit a new “baby,” a canned report on acupuncture in China, a follow-up story on the survivor of an air crash, or a visit to the opening of baseball spring training in Florida.
2016, W. Lance Bennett, chapter 5, in News: The Politics of Illusion, 10th edition, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 136
Translations
Danish agurketid
- agurketidday of nothing exciting to report
Dutch komkommertijd
- komkommertijdday of nothing exciting to report
Finnish hiljainen uutispäivä
- hiljainen uutispäiväday of nothing exciting to report
German Sauregurkenzeit, Sommerloch
- Sauregurkenzeitday of nothing exciting to report
- Sommerlochday of nothing exciting to report
Icelandic gúrkutíð
- gúrkutíðday of nothing exciting to report
Polish dzień z niewieloma wiadomościami
- dzień z niewieloma wiadomościamiday of nothing exciting to report
Swedish nyhetstorka
- nyhetstorkaday of nothing exciting to report
Cite this entry
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