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' in mainstream media who give biased and predetermined views misleadingly tailored to fit a particular partisan, financial or business agenda, thus neglecting the fundamental duty to report news impartially. Coined by American researcher

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, the former Chief of Army Staff and Indian Union Minister of State for External Affairs, began referring to a section of the media as "presstitutes" in his tweets in 2015. In July 2023, the UK's

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had called Indian journalist

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a "presstitute", as well as a "total nutcase" and the "epitome of filth and garbage".

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