The phrase "blackout about" is not a grammatically correct phrase and is not commonly used in written English.
It is possible that the intended phrase was "blackout period," which is a term commonly used in finance and business to refer to a certain period of time when an organization's financial records are unavailable for public access. Correct example: "The company's financial records were unavailable for public access during the blackout period."
He has imposed a virtual news blackout about the region.
But in communist Cuba, the information blackout about Mr Chávez's treatment can be kept up.
Jake Tapper commendably broke the television news blackout about Yemen on his CNN show on Wednesday.
Prosecutors are maintaining a media blackout about the cases, and have declined to comment.
Israel has been unusually quiet about the attack on Sept. 6 and has effectively imposed a news blackout about it.
With 11 days left in the bitter election campaign, the Coalition broke its self-imposed information blackout about "on-water matters" to tell voters it had intercepted a boat of 21 Vietnamese asylum seekers recently.
My intention was to do a tick-tock about how the blackout came about, but then I learned he had moved to London and was engaged to marry Kate Garvey, and I thought there might be a more interesting story to do about how his life has changed.
"In that incarnation," Macy goes on, "it was a bunch of blackouts — about twelve of them.
The sensation of culture shock that this creates is heightened if you happen to be outside normal routines and comfort zones, making you think about examples of bias or media blackouts, about alienation in society in general and the things to which you personally are oblivious as you travel to work or wander around the shops.
Finally, media blackouts about drug-related incidents began occurring when journalists were being killed for writing about them, so technology steps in as a way to circumvent the lack of reporting.
Because of its position, the flare sparked a high-frequency radio blackout for about an hour on the daytime side of Earth, most likely over the Pacific Ocean and Eastern Pacific Rim, according to the SWPC update.
