Meanings
- uncountablejournalismBroadcast news mainly intended to entertain rather than to inform.
"We have to cover the hard news always, but we have to cover the soft news to meet demand," said Monique Villa, the managing director of Reuters Media, the division that contains its picture and news wires.
2006 June 1, Stephen Brook, quoting Monique Villa, “Reuters moves into lifestyle journalism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN1 more example
"Segment 3" established the daily presence of a five-minute back-of-the-book feature on network newscasts. Although previously the TV networks had usually featured soft news at the end of their evening news, on some days the soft-news feature did not make it on the air because of the judged newsworthiness of the hard news.
1999, Bartholomew H. Sparrow, Uncertain Guardians: The News Media as a Political Institution, page 97Antonyms: hard news
Synonyms & antonyms
nounBroadcast news mainly intended to entertain rather than to inform.
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