filler

filler
   1. a trivial item included in a serious newspaper
   Filling the empty space among the advertisements and features in the absence of hard news:
    We used to produce fillers, which is what the papers use to cement the real news to the adverts: 'Sacked stripper organizes strike.' You know the sort of thing. (Deighton, 1972)
   2. a cheaper substitute surreptitiously introduced to increase apparent weight or volume
   Either during manufacture, as china clay into cream chocolates, or during packaging, as coal dust into sacks of house coal.

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