flack

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arvostelu, vastustus

ilmatorjuntatykki puhekieltä To flutter; palpitate.
puhekieltä To hang loosely; flag.
puhekieltä To beat by flapping.
A publicist, a publicity agent.
1998, w:Winston Smith (artist)|Winston Smith, Art Crime: The Montage Art of Winston Smith, http://books.google.ru/books?id=4Ni6klsybRgC&lpg=PA25&dq=propaganda%20flack&hl=ru&pg=PA25v=onepage&q=propaganda%20flack&f=false page 25

Edward Bernay, who was a consultant to the US Delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference which terminated the first World War (and who finally wound up as a flack for the United Fruit Company in Latin America), believed that propaganda and its covert marketing could effectively alter the will of the American public.

Thought you were flack," she said.

"I'm not flack."

"All right, P.R., a reporter, a novelist."

.. he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.