| 单词 | happy talk |
| 释义 | > as lemmashappy talk happy talk n. (in news broadcasting) informal or light-hearted conversation, commentary, or bantering by presenters, esp. between the reporting of individual news items; (also) this style or format of news broadcasting. ΚΠ 1971 N.Y. Mag. 28 June (front cover) The profitability of TV's ‘happy-talk’ news. 1973 Listener 30 Aug. 295 What Happy Talk means in fact is that the consumer-listener-viewer gets an inverted perspective of the world in which he lives. Even for domestic news, he is fed reaction rather than analysis. 1995 Inside Fort Collins (Colorado) 2 Feb. 2/3 I hunger for serious slabs of news slathered with details rather than the low-cal happy talk swill they serve up. 2011 Daily News (Jacksonville, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 9 Jan. Back in the good old days when I worked in TV news, local news was transitioning from the deadly seriousness of Walter Cronkite to what we called ‘happy talk’, where the anchors were expected to add a little light banter. < as lemmas |
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