apocrypha = 'trivia' (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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"Infotainment" shows up in newspaperarchive in the 1950's.

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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infotainment, s.v. "Infotainment":
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> "Apocrypha:  The terms "infotainment" and "infotainer" were first used
in
> September 1980 at the Joint Conference of Aslib, the Institute of
> Information Scientists and the Library Association in Sheffield, UK.
The
> Infotainers were a group of British information scientists who put on
> comedy shows at their professional conferences between 1980 and 1990.
>  [Etc.]"
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