Silly season

The silly season (English Silly season) is a term used in relation to the mass media, especially the newspapers and news agencies, for a message- poor time, which is mainly due to the summer break of the political institutions and sports leagues, and also the cultural institutions.

Many politicians are in the summer; find it less rather than policy-relevant events and appointments. Sports clubs have at this time no significant games or competitions. The messaging revenue from the agencies is therefore be noticeable. This usually poor time the news media then talk about events and people that otherwise would be no air time and no space in the newspapers or reported more frequently alleged sensationalism without news value that may turn out to be canards. Also use lobbyists and so-called backbenchers the silly part, to bring up their own issues this week.

Similarly significance of earlier resulting expression Sauregurkenzeit is needed.

Summer slump Animals

Summer slump animals is a humorous term for animals during the dry summer news hole the subject of coverage in the news media. The longest-lived and most widely known summer slump animal is the Loch Ness monster. Other typical examples are runaway or abandoned non-native wild animals that pose a potential hazard to people, sometimes even pets that escape their owners by flight. In some years now these strange stories about a few days, or even weeks away utmost attention.

Examples of such silly season animals are the cow Yvonne, "problem " Bruno, spectacled caiman Sammy and the Swan Petra.