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Pink slime journalism

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In journalism & media, pink slime journalism means: Content presented as independent local news while obscuring partisan or commercial interests behind its production.

In Turkish: yerel haber görünümünde gizli çıkar haberciliği

How it is used

A critical label; investigate ownership and funding instead of applying it to any small or partisan publication.

Example sentences

  1. The investigation linked the network's pink slime journalism to an undisclosed campaign contractor.

    Concealed political production undermines the appearance of independent local reporting.

  2. To identify pink slime journalism, the researchers compared ownership records across dozens of local-looking sites.

    Network-level evidence can reveal relationships hidden by separate local brands.

Common collocations

  • identify pink slime journalism
  • pink slime journalism network
  • investigate pink slime journalism
  • fake newsFalse stories made to look like real news reports; the phrase is also used, sometimes unfairly, to attack reporting that someone simply dislikes.
  • media outletAny organisation or channel that publishes or broadcasts news and information, such as a newspaper, TV channel, radio station, magazine or news website.

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