flackery

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If the mass media are going to be so obvious in their self-serving flackery, people just might get the idea they're more interested in self preservation than in their supposed civic contribution: standing up for the little guy.

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  • I view it as a cynical attempt to flood the web and news media with favorable flackery in a vain attempt to tilt public opinion toward Israel. —  Signs of the Times
  • Pure flackery by a partisan Dem delivering Dem talking pointspropaganda. —  Maggie's Farm
  • In this little game of flackery, Sarah Palin could not be better positioned for tonight's face-off against Joe Biden. —  Gawker
  • Now, I go to a tanning salon every now and then, but man, that's some pretty funny flackery there. —  AdPulp
  • To do this, the very language and the meaning carried by its words is constantly sacrificed on the altar of cheap PR flackery. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
 

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