press gaggle
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press gaggle
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By analogy with a gaggle of goose. First recorded in the briefing sense in the early 2000s.
noun press gaggles
- An informal off-camera briefing given by a spokesperson or politician. In 20 years of journalism, I'd never seen a public official do what McGreevey did when asked a question he didn't want to answer at a press gaggle after a public event […]
- A noisy crowd of journalists. When he returned to his hometown in Kansas over the weekend, the press gaggle made it difficult for Hart to circulate among several hundred people from Ottawa who turned out to meet him at a reception.
