trendmill
n.— «I feared that commentators would immediately seize upon my Sunday piece as you did …here goes the press again, beating the war drums for the administration, one step on the “trendmill’ [sic] as you call it. But I decided to proceed anyway, hoping that others would actually read the facts, not concentrate on the timing.» —“Debating the Iranian ‘Trendmill’” by William M. Arkin Washington Post Apr. 6, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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