Whorespondent or Whorrespondent (whore + correspondent)
“Whorespondent” or “whorrespondent” (whore + correspondent) is a term used by people who don’t have much faith in news correspondents. “The Communists of the Old Left, of course, have traditionally regarded reporters as ‘presstitutes’ or ‘whorespondents’” was printed in the book The Center: The Anatomy of Power in Washington (1968) by Stewart Alsop.
“Whorespondent” has frequently been used with the term “presstitute” (press + prostitute).
Wikipedia: Correspondent
A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for magazines, or more speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign country. The term correspondent refers to the original practice of filing news reports via postal letter. The largest networks of correspondents belong to ARD (Germany) and BBC (UK).
Google Books
The Center:
The Anatomy of Power in Washington
By Stewart Alsop
London, UK: Hodder and Stoughton
1968
Pg. 208:
The Communists of the Old Left, of course, have traditionally regarded reporters as “presstitutes” or “whorespondents,” truckling in terror to the demands of their capitalist employers.
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reece
@reecyru
@vtocce I think Carlos is cute. Mika does look like her dad. And ouch to “whorespondent”
6:47 AM - 22 May 2009
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Vince in geographic area near San Francisco Bay
@VinceintheBay
Excellent. @cnn has whorespondents in LA, NYC, DC, & ATL. They are on top of all the #iranelection coverage.
9:14 PM - 20 Jun 2009
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Whorespondent, presstitute, etc. (self.Libertarian)
submitted January 10, 2012 by [deleted]
Hey, I’ve been seeing these around. People keep defending their use by saying “Men can be whorespondents too!”, but I’ve only seen these words used in posts featuring female corporate-crony-journalists (though I understand I may have missed posts with males). Just keep in mind that things like this make any point you try to make less convincing to most people. Sure, there is a time for circlejerking among like-minded allies, but I have a theory that r/Libertarian is getting more curious traffic than usual right now from potential future non-ideologues, and you want to win people over, not alienate them.
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Devon Dalon C-137
@CharlesDalon
Disgusted with the MSM presstitutes and whorrespondents.
Dr. Paul 2012!!!
2:41 PM - 18 Jan 2012
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CyberDurden
@CyberDurden
@tomleykis American media = lying presstitutes and Whorrespondents. #Leykis
5:23 PM - 5 Feb 2015
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@Southcb007
@RonPaul #Whorespondents and #Presstitutes will turn racism violence on #Trump through there #Hitler #Racist banter. Sad times!
2:53 PM - 11 Jul 2016
Fake News Invasion
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Lamestream Presstitutes and Whorespondents Inciting Violence Via Fake News Narrative
Posted by JM Talboo at 7:16 PM
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thesecondgoing
@thesecondgoing
#IrishMedia #Churnalists #Presstitutes and #Whorespondents. https://twitter.com/gemmaod1/status/905040746499239936 …
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7:17 AM - 5 Sep 2017