Meaning of hit piece | Babel Free

Definitions

A published article or post aiming to sway public opinion, especially by presenting false or biased information in a way that appears objective and truthful.

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“And respectable media institutions do have⟳ their standards, but there is something insidious—and very human—at work⟳ in the preparation of a hit piece: the media's desire to believe⟳ in the evil of their targets.”

““This isn't a profile, my dear sister-in-law, it's a hit piece.” “A hit piece?” Buck unfolded his copy⟳ of the Spectator and began looking for Anne's byline. “It's on page three,” Pearce told him helpfully.”

“She seemed so exacting and the magazine itself so impossibly glamorous to my college-kid sensibility, and did I really want⟳ to do a hit piece on an actor? […] And so the plan⟳ was set⟳ in motion: I would meet⟳ the actor Judd Nelson, find⟳ him appalling, and write⟳ about how awful hanging out with him had been.”

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