content-free adj.
[by analogy with techspeak `context-free'] Used of a message
that adds nothing to the recipient's knowledge. Though this
adjective is sometimes applied to flamage, it more usually connotes derision for
communication styles that exalt form over substance or are
centered on concerns irrelevant to the subject ostensibly at
hand. Perhaps most used with reference to speeches by company
presidents and other professional manipulators. "Content-free?
Uh... that's anything printed on glossy paper."
(See also four-color
glossies.) "He gave a talk on the implications of
electronic networks for postmodernism and the fin-de-siecle
aesthetic. It was content-free."