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This entry has no source. I have done my research and discussed it on the French Wikipedia community portal (here).
To put it bluntly: the only reliable source which has the word "Tittytainment" in the sense described currently at this entry (i.e. "A form of lowest common denominator entertainment designed to appeal to the masses and refrain people from thinking.") is the 1996 book w:The Global Trap by two journalists. Those journalists claim that this term was coined in with this meaning by w:Zbigniew Brzeziński. Hans-Peter Martin claims he is one of the three journalists to have been able to have access to the place where Brzeziński coined the term.
Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Routledge, 2015, (→ISBN) as well as David Rowan, A Glossary for the 90s. Prion Books, 1998, (→ISBN) have another definition of this word. The New Partridge has: "tittytainment noun television programming that exploits sex US Used in the German media. • 'Tittytainment', lamented Die Woche, 'keeps the masses quiet[.]' — David Rowan, A Glossary for the 90s, p. 128, 1998". A Glossary for the 90s has: "Tittytainment n. Television that exploits sex to gain ratings. The term originated in the States, but has now arrived in Germany, where a glut of programmes concerned with such issues as Swedish massage techniques has aroused more than the obvious. 'Tittytainment', lamented the weekly newspaper Die Woche, 'keeps the masses quiet by feeding them the sweet milk of low-grade entertainment as though from an enormous breast'."
I propose that this entry be deleted, because this word is not used in English nowadays in any of the two meanings (throught Google search of "Tittytainment", I cannot find any webpage using), and because there is no reliable sources supporting the current definition of the entry. This is my first RfD on Wiktionary, so I am sorry if I got something wrong. Veverve (talk) 17:35, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
- Googling gives lots of hits. Seems reasonable to keep it. SemperBlotto (talk) 17:42, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
- Move to RfV. This is the wrong forum to raise this issue. bd2412 T 06:56, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
- Move to RFV. Not an RFD issue. Equinox ◑ 00:28, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
- 3 citations added. Equinox ◑ 00:41, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
Resolved at RfV. bd2412 T 22:52, 16 April 2021 (UTC)