“Not Journalists ,Collaborators”
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accomplices
co-conspirators
abettors
accessories
fellow travelers
sycophants
boot lickers
groupies
lackeys
flunkies
grovelers
puppets
adulators
hangers-on
slaves
fawners
minions
brownnosers
parasites
backslappers
Exactly accurate.
Our side should not allow others to control the language.
Example: “private off-the-record meeting” at every opportunity should be called “Secret meeting with the president.”
Conspiracy buffs love a secret and maybe they will begin to pay attention.