dumbing-down

Biologically, culturally and professionally Germany is dumbing down, Mr Sarrazin argued (and was then forced out of his job).

But that doesn't change the fact that the White House is aiding and abetting the dumbing down of our deficit debate.

A best-selling book by a former banker promoted genetic theories of intelligence and said that Muslims were "dumbing down" society.

Television has been blamed for the dumbing down of the American public since the ascendance of the boob tube in the 1950s.

None of this is an argument for dumbing down, for lowest common denominators or for pandering.

Prime-time science documentaries are often accused by experts of "dumbing down" .

That it was nothing more than XML scripting and the dumbing down of developers.

the producers categorically deny that they're dumbing down the show.

today there is a dumbing-down of the cubiculum by lowering standards and greatly reducing the content taught in classrooms.

This list is the ultimate confirmation of the dumbing down of America.

Yeah. Dumbing down the whole world with their sheer stupidity.

And this dumbing down bodes ill for the nation's future.

We can't even afford it financially, because Wall Street's demands on Big Media are dumbing down the product itself.

He called it the dumbing down of the Doha round.

Beckham, a banal genius, became a vehicle for debating Britain's dumbing-down.

'Dumbing down', the complaint goes, means that people cannot understand long words, or read long books;

second, teaching to the test is a form of dumbing down;