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- noun The aggressive
public relations activity associated withpress agents
Etymologies
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Examples
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Okay, behold the official flackery for my most recent novel, the ebook Bristlecone.
Archive 2010-05-01 Steve Perry 2010
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"In fact, his clients were often large powerful corporations, and his services to them were different from the flackery which his description implies, more commonplace, more corrupt."
Ben Sonnenberg, founder of Grand Street literary magazine, dies at 73 2010
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Okay, behold the official flackery for my most recent novel, the ebook Bristlecone.
Bristlecone, a Novel Steve Perry 2010
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Naturally, that bit of flackery was emailed to reporters and posted on the BP America Facebook page, in keeping with BP's tradition of keeping anything too troubling as far away from cameras as possible.
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Even the nod Carville gave to Biden is consistent with Clinton flackery, since it's always in the interest of any front runner to build up bottom-tier folks and thereby diffuse the opposition, and put the second - and third - place candidates in the position of having to fight a two-front war.
James Carville Says Clinton Won Debate, Again Not I.D.ed As Clinton Supporter By CNN 2009
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To do this, the very language and the meaning carried by its words is constantly sacrificed on the altar of cheap PR flackery.
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The context instantly turned the speech's insights into flackery for more war.
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The same bad judgment that led to the dishonest flackery on the prescription drug bill led to this bear ad (and the Iraq war, Alito, etc).
Matt Stoller: Carter Eskew and Democratic K-Street Culture 2008
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They grasp candidates are showcased as perfect as speeches, films, staging and flackery can make them.
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And whatever real distinction there may have once been between journalism and flackery has long since been swept away by the howling, gibbering tsunami of the cable news channels, leaving only a few dazed refugees clinging to the treetops in the print press.
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