house organ

noun

: a periodical distributed by a business concern among its employees, sales personnel, or customers

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And in recent months, Musk has become one of Trump’s biggest donors and most energetic supporters, turning X into an unofficial house organ for his campaign. David Ingram, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024 Since the seventies, Commentary had been the house organ of disgruntled neoconservatives; by the nineties, left-leaning Democrats who were stalwart on Israel found a haven at The New Republic. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024 Or the writer of another letter to his house organ WSJ calling for antitrust action against the ESG movement? Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 3 June 2022 The mainstream media is essentially a house organ for the left. Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2021 Then there was October, which was almost like your house organ [a critical theory journal, edited by Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson and Douglas Crimp]. New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021 In 1843, a parish priest in Roquemaure, France, asked a local poet named Placide Cappeau to write some verse celebrating the renovation of the house organ at the town's Catholic church. Bill Adler, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021 Many conservatives are probably worried that a wounded Trump might use a dolchstoss story to popularize some alternative to the institutional conservative movement and its house organ, Fox News. Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 13 Nov. 2020 Screened a few silent movies and have had accompaniment from the Mighty Wurlitzer [house organ]. Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 9 Sep. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1886, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of house organ was in 1886

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“House organ.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/house%20organ. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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