infoganda
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of information + propaganda.
Noun edit
infoganda (uncountable)
- (neologism) Journalistic content, particularly news, published or broadcast in the interest of advancing an ideological agenda.
- 1999, Jeffrey Scheuer, The Sound Bite Society: How Television Helps the Right and Hurts the Left, Routledge, published 2001, →ISBN, page 31:
- GOP-TV, the television arm of the Republican Party, debuted in 1995 with the news magazine Rising Tide, a pseudo-news program (less "infotainment" than "infoganda") spreading the conservative gospel and raising money on some two thousand cable systems.
Quotations edit
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