newshand
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Etymology edit
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newshand (plural newshands)
- A journalist.
- 2008 April 20, William Safire, “In the Tank”, in New York Times[1]:
- The punditocracy, from ankle-biters to bigfeet, suddenly felt itself caught in a one-sided, enamored state and needed to distance itself from charges of rampant dispensing of what cynical old newshands call “big wet kisses” to a charming fresh face.