silly season

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All this would seem no more than a silly-season spat were a larger question not hanging in the air: will Mr Zapatero stand at the next general election?
社會黨的矛盾看起來衹不過是新聞缺乏期裡的一次普通爭吵，但卻凸顯了背後的一大問題：薩帕特羅能撐到下一屆大選麽？
Initiatives such as Nice's work in the area, and an ongoing House of Lord's inquiry on behaviour change indeed suggest that the topic is more than a blip in the media's summer silly season.
通過對這一地區Nice的倡議以及上議院所作的行爲改變調查結果的研究表明這個話題衹是媒躰在無聊的夏季曇花一現的炒作罷了。
Then, at the height of next year’s silly season, Californians (the ones who have owed the tax all along and didn’t know it) will decide this complex matter.
然後，在明年新聞最無聊的月份，加州人民（自始至終都受益於該稅收卻不自知的人們）將決定這個複襍的事件該如何收場。

Is it silly season already, or did I really read this in the Onion?
FORBES: Moms Group Says GEICO Ad Promotes Bestiality
You have to know the Silly Season has officially arrived when this sort of story creates an international flap.
FORBES: Canadian Oil Sands Unfairly Tainted By BP Fiasco
It is time to begin pondering these and other questions as Silly Season begins, even if only reluctantly and with a knowing half-smirk.
FORBES: The Silly Season of Forecasts

the time of year, usually in the summer, when newspapers are full of stories that are not important because there is no important, especially political, news

a period, usually during the hot summer months, when journalists fill space reporting on frivolous events and activities