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Junk food news refers to news stories that sensationalize, personalize or homogenize relatively inconsequential trivia in the mass media. "Popular press" redirects here note that the University of Wisconsin Press publishes under the imprint "The Popular Press" It is a sardonic phrase which has the same meaning as journalistic noise.

History and meaning of the term

The term "junk food news" suggests an unflattering similarity in quality of some stories selected by news editors and junk food (poor quality food stuffs). Junk food is a broad term that is used to describe a variety of Food products from Sweets that contain little to no Nutritional value to products used in Food is any substance usually composed primarily of Carbohydrates Fats water and/or Proteins that can be eaten or drunk by an It was first used in print by Carl Jensen in the March 1983 edition of Penthouse. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Penthouse, a Men 's Magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and Soft-core pornographic pictorials The term evolved from response to criticism of Project Censored by news directors and editors who argued that the real issue wasn't censorship - rather a difference of opinion as to what information is important to publish or broadcast. Project Censored is a non-profit, sociological project of an investigative nature within the Sonoma State University Foundation Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable harmful or sensitive as determined by a censor Some critics tried to bolster this view with ad hominem comments about Carl Jensen. An ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem ( Latin: "argument to the man" "argument against the man" They said that he wasn't exploring media censorship, rather he was just another frustrated academic criticizing editorial news judgement. In Journalism and Public relations, a news embargo or press embargo is a request by a source that the Information or News

Typically, "junk food news" can be said to fall into one or more of these categories:

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