Junk food news
Junk food news, or junk news, is a sardonic term for news stories that deliver "sensationalized, personalized, and homogenized inconsequential trivia", especially when such stories appear at the expense of serious investigative journalism. It implies a criticism of the mass media for disseminating news that, while not very nourishing, is "cheap to produce and profitable for media proprietors." == Meaning == The term junk food news was first used in print by Carl Jensen in the March 1983 edition of Penthouse.