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netsuzo

netsuzo
 n.— «The practice of false reporting is so commonplace among the nonestablishment Japanese press that journalists have coined a term for it: netsuzo, or “the manufacturing of the news.”» —“‘A Public Betrayed’: Establishment Press Leaks Tips to Japan’s Weeklies” by Takesato Watanabe, Adam Gamble Online Journalism Review Aug. 26, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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