| 单词 | trash television |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrash television trash television n. originally and chiefly U.S. television programming regarded as poor in quality, usually because it relies on sensationalism and titillation to attract an audience; esp. a type of talk show in which members of the public are encouraged to discuss intimate problems in their personal lives. ΚΠ 1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 22 Jan. b1 Channel 9..seems to be specializing these days in the tackier forms of trash television,..and it's almost tantalizing to wonder how much lower the station can go. 1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 28 Nov. 42/3 It is not only trash television that blurs the line between news and entertainment anymore. Almost everybody does it, squeezing every last drop of blood out of every last disaster, war and crime. 1999 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 6 Aug. 18/7 The king of trash television, Jerry Springer,..may have come up with his biggest shocker to date: a run for the United States Senate. < as lemmas |
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