slow news day
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Noun
slow news day (plural slow news days)
- (journalism) A time when media organizations publish trivial stories due to the lack of more substantial topics.
- 2016, W. Lance Bennett, chapter 5, in News: The Politics of Illusion, 10th edition, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 136:
- 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.
Translations
day of nothing exciting to report
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