unnews

alternative un-news

1. nonstandardrareuncountableNews that is unnewsworthy.

   […] brand of what Orwell might have called 'unnews'.

   1990, Gerry Abbott, Back to Mandalay: An Inside View of Burma, page 72

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   […] six of the last ten World Series have gone the full seven games, and only the one-sided five-game victory of the Orioles over the Reds in 1970 ranked close to this year's affair as unnews.

   2001, Aethlon, volume 19, page 151

   In the tumultuous autumn of 2005, as riots and car burnings raged through France, the contrasting calm in Marseille attracted little media attention; it was un-news.

   2012, Karl E. Meyer, Shareen Blair Brysac, Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds