Infotainment

The latest victim of infotainment is education and specifically, the scrutiny of teachers. ❋ Pam Lowe (2010)

All these flowing bits and bytes and streams of data, this nebulae of infotainment is concrete and absolute! ❋ Unknown (2009)

The lowered guidance, wrote Banc of America analyst Ronald A. Tadross in a Thursday note to investors, is likely driven by a staggered phase-in of Harman's backlog in "infotainment" -- the combination of information and entertainment technology. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It is called infotainment, entertaining soundbites that inform you about a product or event. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What the industry calls infotainment systems combine safety elements such as emergency response and door unlocking with entertainment through connectivity to portable music devices. ❋ Unknown (2010)

- Intel rolls out four new Atom processors, designed to fit into a wider variety of devices and applications, including mobile and wireless devices such as smartphones, ecotechnologies, industrial-strength applications and so-called infotainment devices in cars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It serves as a key source of information and entertainment, known as infotainment, as well as other mobility exploiting applications while being our side - by our side every hour of the day, every day of the week. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was limited use of "infotainment," (using entertainment, such as television shows to pass key health and hygiene messages), even though some "infotainment" pilot projects appeared effective. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The moment that whichever U.S. news station coined the term 'infotainment' was the moment that blurring reality moved away from cinema fantasy and into the consciousness of the U.S. and then spread across the world via the global media. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Political debates now being cued and managed by a tv news anchor man, "brought to" us by commercials, and all the Dems candidates actually attending this glitzy commercialized "infotainment" production. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What emerged from the HUAC, Watergate, even the tragically impotent Iran-Contra hearings was not only a template for what would decades later devolve into the perverse format known as "infotainment" but an unfiltered examination of issues germane to the nation's character in a forum where the spectators at home were free to judge for themselves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I prefer it to the squishy, dishonest "infotainment" garbage you see on CNN, or the New York Times 'current policy of spewing propaganda as news and then periodically trotting the editor out in a hair shirt to do penance for their willful and already-committed sins. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the crush for profit and market share, "infotainment" has replaced news and pundits have replaced reporters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Real journalists and concerned academics often scoff at this 'infotainment' model, but story telling of this nature tends to resonate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With a stroke of the pen, "infotainment", the convergence of news and entertainment, was born. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It means one less national outlet watchdogging our government and big business -- and one more chasing after "infotainment" stories about Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Profit tumbled 70% in the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30 as Harman absorbed the costs of custom designing a record 13 "infotainment" systems for luxury car makers. ❋ Unknown (2008)