Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "news blackout".
I followed her out to the corridor and we saw Cole-Verity, the Ambassador, surrounded by flapping minions - a big man still in his ceremonial dress, decorations, gold epaulettes, ashen-faced and half-shouting at them, 'Tell them it's an emergency news blackout.
If you have chosen to maintain a news blackout about this problem we are facing, then please do not consider me to be an exception.
A leakproof news blackout had been slammed down for some time now.
The President has ordered a temporary news blackout on the situation until he can announce the existence of our new moon base.
Shoda would have been very upset by the agitation at political level, in spite of the news blackout, and the next time she'd order the subtlest kill she could think of.
Either the TV reporter had not checked for news with the Sheriff, or the autopsy surgeon had imposed a news blackout.