hit job
(slang) A hit: a premeditated murder for criminal or political purposes.
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Agree, but that isn't happening. Labour and the Greens get hammered in different ways. Reform often gets a free pass (except in the New World, Byline Times and occasionally the Guardian). And when you do a hit job, it…
A glib, disgusting article that attempts to associate Hannah Spencer with threats and violence directed at MPs. A hit job.
Which never fails to remind me of the hit job the @nytimes.com and Amy Chozick in particular did on Hillary in 2016.
Cause what is the true reason for @vulture.com to do an unprofessional hit job like that on top of leaning in to #misogynoir? 🤔 www.tiktok.com/@positivelyu...
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(slang) A hit: a premeditated murder for criminal or political purposes.
Others cannot accept that a suicide or an auto accident was not a hitjob by the Ku Klux Klan.
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(slang) A publication launched to damage the reputation of person or company.
“Agree, but that isn't happening. Labour and the Greens get hammered in different ways. Reform often gets a free pass (except in the New World, Byline Times and occasionally the Guardian). And when you do a hit job, it needs to be watertight, rather than selective information.”
“A glib, disgusting article that attempts to associate Hannah Spencer with threats and violence directed at MPs. A hit job.”
“Which never fails to remind me of the hit job the @nytimes.com and Amy Chozick in particular did on Hillary in 2016.”
Others cannot accept that a suicide or an auto accident was not a hitjob by the Ku Klux Klan.
“Agree, but that isn't happening. Labour and the Greens get hammered in different ways. Reform often gets a free pass (except in the New World, Byline Times and occasionally the Guardian). And when you do a hit job, it needs to be watertight, rather than selective information.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“A glib, disgusting article that attempts to associate Hannah Spencer with threats and violence directed at MPs. A hit job.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Which never fails to remind me of the hit job the @nytimes.com and Amy Chozick in particular did on Hillary in 2016.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Cause what is the true reason for @vulture.com to do an unprofessional hit job like that on top of leaning in to #misogynoir? 🤔 www.tiktok.com/@positivelyu...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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