slow news day

English

Noun

slow news day (plural slow news days)

1. (journalism) A time when media organizations publish trivial stories due to the lack of more substantial topics.
   • 2016, W. Lance Bennett, chapter 5, in News: The Politics of Illusion, 10th edition, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 136:

     Perhaps you have seen a television news program on a slow news day. In place of international crises, press conferences, congressional hearings, and proclamations by the mayor, the news may consist of a trip to the zoo to visit a new “baby,” a canned report on acupuncture in China, a follow-up story on the survivor of an air crash, or a visit to the opening of baseball spring training in Florida.

Translations

day of nothing exciting to report

• Danish: agurketid
• Dutch: komkommertijd (nl) m
• Finnish: hiljainen uutispäivä
• German: Sauregurkenzeit (de); Sommerloch (de) (in the summer)
• Icelandic: gúrkutíð
• Polish: dzień z niewieloma wiadomościami m
• Swedish: nyhetstorka (sv) c

See also

• dead donkey
• silly season