Bullshit.
plastic.com?
Or you could try some pompous French word, like, huh.. eeeh.. place publique?
media?
Nightline!
What do I win?
Hmmm. It's a shame 'demotics' means something else (well, several other things) and has unfortunately classist connotations, becaue otherwise it might have been a good fit. But it does, and it isn't.
Sorry, that wasn't very helpful, was it?
Agora kinda fits but it's been a little over-used.
Prebate
We debate the news before it get political.
polipinion
polympics
DePeNds. (My favorite.)
I like rhubarb. It's what extras sometimes say when they have to make talking noises. It sounds interesting and original.
It's also tasty with a bit of sugar, on a summer's evening in the garden.
It's what extras sometimes say when they have to make talking noises.
As heard on radio and seen and heard on film.
INFOTAINMENT!
Actors used to use "bread and butter" in crowd scenes.
rhubarbarity, rhubarbistry, rhubarbism, nhubarb?
*rhu-burps*
Rhetoric.
anal masaage in the fenlands
poliactualdialectics
or
mootations
anal masaage in the fenlands
I get the impression kamus digs this one.
Politicodebatanewsabatics.
Well, not really.
Goofyfoot has it right. The term is rhetoric
From dictionary.com
Rhetoric (blahblah) n.
1. 1. The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
2. A treatise or book discussing this art.
2. Skill in using language effectively and persuasively.
3. 1. A style of speaking or writing, especially the language of a particular subject: fiery political rhetoric.
2. Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous: His offers of compromise were mere rhetoric.
4. Verbal communication; discourse.
ChopTalk
ArguMoot
kibitzing
discourse
Civics?
fap-fap
/mischievous grin
infoblether
Newswankerfilter
hmmmm, some of you seem to be working a trend ...
Jerking the microphone?
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