idiotainment
idiotainment by GFK- social comentator for now April 24, 2016
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idiotainment
TV programs that constantly rote teach rubbish, with pointless and stupid content, made for idiots, by people that consider their demographic viewers idiots.
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"Saw the latest season of hot-shots", bad singing, no real music, po faced acting from plastic celebrities forced on tv owners, absolute IDIOTAINMENT"
idiotainment by GFK- social comentator for now April 13, 2016
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infotainment
A class of entertainment combined with journalism developed for 24-hour television news networks. Designed to instill emotional responses from viewers in between actual "interesting" news developments of national interest and importance.
Water-skiing squirrels, celebrity lawsuits, missing white-upper-middle-class-attractive children, or any other event that happens daily but is chosen (for one reason or another) to receive special attention from national news networks.
infotainment by Thomas Christy March 31, 2005
Ignotainment
A variety of TV or internet broadcast that masquerades as "news" but is actually free of meaningful content or insight. Serves individuals who are primarily interested in thoughts they've already had, and information that fits into a small predefined world view.
Before the election I tried to have a conversation with Bob, but he watches so much ignotainment that he's now living in a reality-free zone.
Ignotainment by DJTig December 5, 2012
Infotainment
A poor excuse for large television networks to fill up on-air space: an attempt to sell people things that barely work, things that they dont need and things that are quite pointless in today's society.
Dodgey American acting and heaps of photoshopping appeals to the emotions of many stay at home parents, the elderly or teenagers with access to their parent's credit card.
It is sad to think a television station exists that plays repeats of hundreds of pathetic commercials, 24hours a day. WOW.
Dodgey American acting and heaps of photoshopping appeals to the emotions of many stay at home parents, the elderly or teenagers with access to their parent's credit card.
It is sad to think a television station exists that plays repeats of hundreds of pathetic commercials, 24hours a day. WOW.
1) "Oh my gosh, I am sooo sick of seeing all of this Infotainment on TV; surely they have something better for their viewers to watch."
2) "LOL at the people who sit and watch this crap all day."
3) "Shaun, why are you sitting here watching Infotainment? Don't you have anything better to do with your life?!"
2) "LOL at the people who sit and watch this crap all day."
3) "Shaun, why are you sitting here watching Infotainment? Don't you have anything better to do with your life?!"
Infotainment by teevee h8ter July 8, 2012
fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)