vertrossing
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom ver- + TROS + -ing (Televisie Radio Omroep Stichting).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvertrossing f (uncountable)
- (Netherlands, chiefly derogatory) A process in which public broadcasting organisations increasingly focus on entertainment over educative television and radio and lose their distinctive (ideological or religious) character, considered a symptom of semi-commercialism and degenerate mass culture by critics. [from ca. 1973]