English Dictionary

firebreaking

名詞

不可算名詞

The activity of creating firebreaks. / (public relations) To direct media attention at a second story in order to minimize the impact of an embarrassing story.

日本語の意味

防火帯（火災蔓延防止のための空白地帯）を作る行為、またはそれに関連する活動 / （広報用語）恥ずかしい事象の影響を緩和するために、二次的な話題にメディアの注意を向けさせる行為

The crew spent the morning on firebreaking along the ridge to protect the valley from the approaching blaze.

その隊は迫りくる炎から谷を守るため、尾根沿いで午前中ずっと防火帯の造成に当たった。

意味（1）

The activity of creating firebreaks.

Generally, the forest, owing to the flatness of the country, lends itself to ideal subdivision into compartments and cheap firebreaking by horse-drawn graders.

意味（2）

(public relations) To direct media attention at a second story in order to minimize the impact of an embarrassing story.

Below the line spin involves setting and driving the news agenda, but also 'firebreaking' (deliberately constructing a story to divert journalists away from an embarrassing story, e.g., Campbell's leak to the Sunday Times that MI6 was investigating Chris Patten when the story of Robin Cook's affair broke) or 'stoking the fire' (the precise opposite of firebreaking by gathering and providing information to sustain a story which an opponent is finding embarrassing, e.g. Labour spin doctors' efforts to fuel the story of rifts between John Major and the anti-Europeans in the Conservative Party) or 'undermining a personality' (e.g. the off-the-record description of Gordon Brown as 'psychologically flawed', Harriet Harman as 'incapable of joined-up thinking', while a 'senior government aide' suggested that Mo Mowlam's illness had left her 'without the intellectual rigour for her job' with another anonymous 'adviser' claiming to be 'dismayed at her erratic behaviour'.