soft news
English
Noun
- Broadcast news mainly intended to entertain rather than to inform.
- Antonym: hard news
- 1999, Bartholomew H. Sparrow, Uncertain Guardians: The News Media as a Political Institution, page 97:
- "Segment 3" established the daily presence of a five-minute back-of-the-book feature on network newscasts. Although previously the TV networks had usually featured soft news at the end of their evening news, on some days the soft-news feature did not make it on the air because of the judged newsworthiness of the hard news.
Hypernyms
- infotainment
- soft media
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