The term Dumbing Down as described in Wikipedia,
Dumbing down is viewed either as a pejorative term for a perceived over-simplification of, amongst other things,
education,
news and
television, or as a statement of truth about real cultural trends in education and culture. According to John Algeo, former editor of
American Speech, the
neologism dumb down "revise so as to appeal to those of little education or intelligence" was first recorded in 1933 as movie slang, and
dumb up in 1928.
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The concept "dumbing down" can point to a variety of different things but the concept always involves a claim about the simplification of culture, education, and thought, a decline in creativity and innovation, a degradation of artistic, cultural, and intellectual standards, or the undermining of the very idea of a standard, and the trivialisation of cultural, artistic, and academic creations.