Translation question clarification

[David Borgmeyer]

SEELANGers,

In the vein of "puff piece,"  how about "hit piece?"

It doesn't have the specific connotation of being "commissioned," but it is 
mainstream journalism that is considered ideologically (or at least 
editorially) motivated, often with less than the usual regard for fairness 
or accuracy.

DB



>From: "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>
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>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Translation question clarification
>Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:21:36 -0400
>
>Elena Gapova wrote:
>
>>Thanks to everyone who is trying to help.
>>
>>What I mean is a kind of a "commissioned paper" (in a newspaper)
>>which is disguised as if it is not and is just a journalist's own
>>point of view. Just for some reason a journalist decides to write in
>>a "government newspaper" that a university which was closed by the
>>Belarusian government for political reasons is, in fact, a bad
>>university academically and its students do not stady, but conspire
>>against the government etc. e.g.
>
>In other words, the print equivalent of an infomercial?
>
>A near miss would be "puff piece," which is distinctly derogatory. I'll 
>think of something better soon, unless someone else beats me to it.
>
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