infotainment
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Infotainment, a portmanteau of information and entertainment, is a type of media, usually television or online, that provides a combination of information and entertainment. The term may be used disparagingly to devalue infotainment or soft news subjects in favor of more serious hard news subjects. Infotainment-based websites and social media apps gained traction due to their focused publishing of infotainment content, e.g. BuzzFeed. It is also called soft news as a way to distinguish it from serious journalism or hard news.
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It sits within the topics 1980 neologisms, Influence of mass media and Infotainment.
Vinony links it to 26 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Infotainment
- P13411
- September 12
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Background
- Infotainment as news
- "News you can use"
- Criticism
- Public critique
- Well-known infotainers
- On social media
- Impact
- See also
- References
- External links
Infotainment, a portmanteau of information and entertainment, is a type of media, usually television or online, that provides a combination of information and entertainment. The term may be used disparagingly to devalue infotainment or soft news subjects in favor of more serious hard news subjects. Infotainment-based websites and social media apps gained traction due to their focused publishing of infotainment content, e.g. BuzzFeed. It is also called soft news as a way to distinguish it from serious journalism or hard news.
==Background==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “infotainment” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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