Definitions

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  • adjective misleadingly tailoring news to fit a particular partisan, financial or business agenda
  • noun A person or media entity reporting news in such a biased manner.

Etymologies

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Blend of press and prostitute

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Examples

  • There's a reason the word presstitute was coined ...

    Latest Articles 2009

  • I think Americans deserve to know this and Bush deserves to questioned about it, and not by some presstitute flack either, but by the Congress.

    Think Progress » Caught on Tape: Bush Admits WMD Were Irrelevant 2005

  • The Bush war, the single-greatest blunder in America's foreign policy history, was spawned by greed-addicted corporatists and treasonous neoconartists, presstitute lackeys and political hacks, placed in charge of US foreign policy and the propaganda acting as corporate media, easily in control of a nitwit, ignorant puppet, possessing his bully pulpit from which to spew the fabrications and manipulations needed to con America.

    Cabal of Criminality 2005

  • Allahpundit caught the elder presstitute admitting the painfully obvious.

    No Runny Eggs 2009

  • They will use every dirty trick, every paid shill, every presstitute that they can.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • The repeater / mockingbird / presstitute naturally ignores the correction of data on temperatures that was made by McKitrick and McIntyre to correlate the way temperatures were previously recorded and the way they are now.

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • Alex was not "bullying" Michelle Melkin rather his confronting her wicked and evil hypocrisy was infinitely more gentle and compassionate than her (and the presstitute media and sociopaths like panamarick's) sick vicious passive agressive lying murderous and slanderous response to Alex's compassionate attempt to expose her to the healing truth concerning her depraved public position papers.

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • J.R. Dunn offers yet another explanation on why the Nutroots are so successful - they drive the presstitute coverage.

    No Runny Eggs 2009

  • They will use every dirty trick, every paid shill, every presstitute that they can.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • April 29th, 2006 at 10:33 pm holy shit when i heard COLBERT was gonna be at this presstitute dinner thingy i wondered what the hell will do . . .

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Rockin’ In the Free World 2006

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