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Call it lackluster coverage like someone else in the comments. Calling it a blackout is hyperbolic and wrong.

• coldtea 13y ago
  "Lackluster coverage" is just another word for blackout. It's not like what's important makes the news -- or that media are free to play whatever they like.
  • res0nat0r 13y ago
    Actually media blackout isn't another word for lackluster coverage.
    • coldtea 13y ago
      The result is the same -- information not getting to the people. It doesn't have to be a total lack of any news coverage for it to be a blackout. If the intent is suppresing some news story (because lackluster coverage can also have other causes), then reduced coverage is a pretty effective way of creating a media blackout short of issuing direct censorship orders and preventing everybody from publishing anything at all. The strategy is to control what the public discussion issues are --ie. what everybody on mass media is talking about--, not to stump every inner page single-column article or 30-second mention.