toe-touch

toe-touch
 n.— «Visiting a scene just long enough to claim a dateline for an article based on somebody else’s uncredited reporting—let’s call it a “dateline toe-touch”—may not be as egregious as writing stories datelined Palestine, W.Va., without leaving your Brooklyn apartment, as Jayson Blair did.» —“Rick Bragg’s ‘Dateline Toe-Touch’” by Jack Shafer Slate May 23, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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