exploitainment

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not in OED despite 5,000+ raw Googlits.

1994 Woody Lonhard & Barry Simon _PC Mom: The Mother of All PC Books_
(Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley)
506: All of them claim to be entertaining. And, most assuredly all, of them
claim to be edutainment.  [New para.] More like exploitainment. Jeeeez,
these guys can hear cash registers ringing from a mile away.

1997 Barbara Lippert in _New York Magazine_ (June 23) 30: [A] revved-up form
of media exploitainment which everyone pretends to be indignant and offended
while raking in the profits.

2007 Glasgow Phillips _The Royal Nonesuch_ (N.Y.: Grove Press) 139: Sundance
would be happy to program your exploitainment if it purported to be a
documentary.

JL

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