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  • noun infotainment

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Examples

  • This one - World's Greatest Hoaxes open brackets Secrets Finally Revealed close brackets - is a vastly entertaining piece of "docutainment" originally shown on Channel 5 in 1999.

    Archive 2010-02-01 X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut 2010

  • As for clothes, I've worn and owned authentic reproductions of Victorian dress (including foundations) and regardless of what popular television 'docutainment' will have you believe both are extremely comfortable and durable without the pain and incomberance one hears touted so often in such shows or in contemporary commentaries.

    Learning From Victorian Families 2007

  • In fact at one point he became the subject of a "docutainment" video.

    Avron Boretz at the Swenson's Meet Up, June 3, 2006 Michael Turton 2006

  • In fact at one point he became the subject of a "docutainment" video.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Michael Turton 2006

  • She should be happy enough that the ignorant masses on the right will gladly hand over their hard earned money for some of her intellectual drivel, much the same way the ignorant masses on the left hand their money to Mike Moore for his intellectually dishonest docutainment.

    Palin slams 'sexist' Newsweek cover 2009

  • From 1993, here we have an excellent episode of Danny Baker's sadly short-lived series of short docutainment shows called TV Heroes.

    TV Heroes - Peter Glaze & Crackerjack X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut 2010

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