issuetainment

TV show that attempts to tackle an issue, but is geared up more to entertain than to make a difference.
Originally coined by Screen Wipe's Charlie Brooker.

Did you see that issuetainment last night, where they made those fat kids do sports? They weren't trying to help them, just make them look silly on TV.

"The only solution is to find a new threat, which brings us to 'Ian Wright's Unfit Kids' (C4), a weekly 'issuetainment' programme in which the former footballer and renowned enemy of grammar forces a bunch of overweight youngsters to take part in some extracurricular PE." - Charlie Brooker, Screen Burn (9/16/2006)

issuetainment by Blue Jack January 22, 2009

insultainment 

print, broadcast or online content, especially that distributed by a commercial entity, which is so stultifyingly stupid and/or devoid of actual news or information that it can only be considered an insult to the intelligence of (and may even induce fits of rage in) the viewer.

i told my dad he needs to start watching something other than the o'reilly factor. all that insultainment's no good for his blood pressure!

insultainment by aarrgghh January 1, 2008

insultainment 

print, broadcast or online content, especially when distributed by a commercial entity, that is so stultifyingly stupid and/or devoid of actual news or information that it can only be considered an insult to the intelligence of (and may even induce fits of rage in) the viewer.

my doctor tells me i need to start watch something other than the o'reilly factor. he says all that insultainment's no good for my blood pressure!

insultainment by aarrgghh January 5, 2009