Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines a slow news day as ‘a day with little news to report‘.
Slow news days are typically when a lot of ‘filler‘ material (like food hygiene ratings if your name is the Bristol Post/Live. Ed.) is published to fill the otherwise empty space in a traditional dead tree publication.
However, this tendency and the phrase itself seem to have adapted without any trouble to the digital age and online publishing.
A fine example of this was apparent when your ‘umble scribe visited the Shropshire Star website earlier today and scrolled down the news page as far as the Motors news section.
The observant visitor will notice there is not a tinned, motorised three piece suite in sight in any of today’s stories for petrolheads!
A return visit at 14.00h revealed the pace of news had picked up: one of the pieces shown above was finally replaced by a motoring article.