Word: trivializes
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...know that sports, as insignificant and trivial as they sometimes seem, do have power...
...Unlike more academically minded biographers, Ottaviani and Purvis give us as much personality as they do science. Along with the bigger events of Bohr's life the book includes the kind of trivial but telling moments that add nuance to his personality. In one sequence he pouts because, although he convinces his reluctant wife to buy the baby carriage he wants, he really wanted her to believe in the decision, rather than just acquiesce. Purvis, for his part, does a fine job of bringing Bohr and his contemporaries alive with animated caricatures. Together, Purvis and Ottaviani's portrait of Bohr...
...anything, what this presidential election has shown is not that the media has a propensity for conservativism or liberalism. It has a propensity for stupidity—a propensity for avoiding important issues that affect millions of people, while concentrating on trivial matters like the sexual orientation of Dick Cheney’s daughter or how much John Edwards paid for a haircut...
...competing cable television networks fight for ratings, correctly informing the public is no longer important; rather, the focus is now to keep people tuned in by masquerading entertainment as news. “Infotainment,” which thrives off of heated discussions between outrageously partisan pundits about trivial issues, is all that is fed to the American public...
...Stewart points out, this is bad for America. It allows politicians to ignore the serious realities of the world and focus on the trivial games of media politicking. In the world of 24-hour news channels, it is not the candidate with the best policy initiatives or the best record in office who wins; it is the candidate with the biggest stockpile of embarrassing sound bites of his opponent...