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churnalism
[ chur-nuh-liz-uhm ]
noun
- a form of journalism that is characterized by a lack of original research and fact-checking and by reuse of existing material such as press releases:
The website's fast-paced churnalism meant that most of its stories copied heavily from other sources.
Other Words From
- churn·al·ist noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of churnalism1
Example Sentences
Davies’s quest to explore the power of the press had resulted in a fiercely forensic book, Flat Earth News, which chronicled how many newsrooms, obsessed with traffic and with ever-declining budgets, had started practising what he termed “churnalism”.
It is the reverse of so-called “churnalism”, the endless recycling of other people’s stories for clicks.
In the latest spat, a forum article last month on the website of the Columbia Journalism Review, St Louis accused the SMC of “fuelling a culture of churnalism”.
It was a reaction against the culture of 'churnalism' identified by Nick Davies in his book Flat Earth News, a welcome counterpoint to the wealth of pieces updating us on the state of somebody's broken toe, or telling us that a manager has the "full support" of his chairman, or that a player is "committed" to the club.
But that was the kind of tenuous, content-farm churnalism that came from the tired minds of Adfero employees and was dished out to clients on a regular basis.
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