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飛ばし記事トバシ記事 [sK] とばし記事 [sK]
とばしきじ
1. [n]
▶ article based on unconfirmed reports
▶ unsubstantiated news story



History:
3. A 2023-09-25 22:25:30  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
It's specifically an article. I think we should lead with this gloss.
  Diff:
@@ -19,0 +20 @@
+<gloss>article based on unconfirmed reports</gloss>
@@ -21 +21,0 @@
-<gloss>unconfirmed report</gloss>
2. A 2023-09-24 22:17:53  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
KOD: an 「unconfirmed [unsubstantiated] story; an article based on unconfirmed reports.
  Comments:
unsubstantiated is probably better than speculative.
  Diff:
@@ -20 +20 @@
-<gloss>speculative news story</gloss>
+<gloss>unsubstantiated news story</gloss>
1. A* 2023-09-22 04:38:44  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
sankoku (entry for 飛ばし):
  きちんとした根拠のない情報にもとづく記事。
daijirin:
  事実であることを確認しないで書かれた記事。飛ばし。

jitsuyou also has a lengthy explanation. Rather than outright fake or bogus news stories, it sounds like this often refers to stories based upon sources that the journalist trusts but cannot reveal.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 飛ばし記事 │ 5,511 │ 88.7% │
│ トバシ記事 │   414 │  6.7% │
│ とばし記事 │   262 │  4.2% │
│ とばしきじ │    28 │  0.5% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯

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