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Newsgasm 

When news organisations throw all their live coverage at one event, thus making the event more dramatic than it actually is.
Raoul Moat standoff on BBC and Sky News (UK). BBC reporter Jon Sopel took a mobile phone and interviewed an eyewitness live, with a mic next to the speaker, and reporters attempted to outdo each other, creating a newsgasm.
Newsgasm by newsgasmnfan July 10, 2010
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Newsgasm 

When you get news sooooo gooooood it makes you moan like you’re having an orgasm.
I’m pretty sure I had a newsgasm when I learned that Trump will have to submit his tax forms for the last 8 years.
Newsgasm by Cucarachina June 23, 2020
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That feeling you get when you run your fingers across a perfectly new, untouched, just opened glossy surface for the first time and it makes that squeaky sound.
Ashley: I just opened my new iPhone. *peels the film off*
Jake: can I touch it?
Ashley: umm.. Jake, I'm pretty sure you just had a newgasm
newgasm by Coolnick46 November 13, 2014
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