infoganda

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English

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Etymology

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Blend of information +‎ propaganda.

Noun

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infoganda (uncountable)

  1. Journalistic content, particularly news, published or broadcast in the interest of advancing an ideological agenda.
    • 1999, Jeffrey Scheuer, The Sound Bite Society: How Television Helps the Right and Hurts the Left, Routledge, published 2001, →ISBN, page 31:
      GOP-TV, the television arm of the Republican Party, debuted in 1995 with the news magazine Rising Tide, a pseudo-news program (less "infotainment" than "infoganda") spreading the conservative gospel and raising money on some two thousand cable systems.

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