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"ref": "2016, W. Lance Bennett, chapter 5, in News: The Politics of Illusion, 10th edition, University of Chicago Press, page 136",
"text": "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.",
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "day of nothing exciting to report",
"word": "agurketid"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "day of nothing exciting to report",
"word": "hiljainen uutispäivä"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "day of nothing exciting to report",
"word": "Sauregurkenzeit"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "in the summer",
"sense": "day of nothing exciting to report",
"word": "Sommerloch"
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"sense": "day of nothing exciting to report",
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"sense": "day of nothing exciting to report",
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"sense": "day of nothing exciting to report",
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"word": "Sauregurkenzeit"
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"sense": "day of nothing exciting to report",
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"word": "gúrkutíð"
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"sense": "day of nothing exciting to report",
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