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phoner

/ ˈfəʊnə /

noun

  1. informal,  a person making a telephone call

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The unrelenting schedule — radio interviews, TV sit-downs and phoners with publications as far away as the United Kingdom — sounds a lot like Clinton’s unforgiving campaign schedule.

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The “phoner” is back, and no one in network TV news is too happy about it.

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Except in news emergencies, producers usually avoid phoners because television is a visual medium — a face-to-face discussion between a newsmaker and questioner is preferable to a picture of an anchor listening to a disembodied voice.

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He recalls “days of phoners, like: ‘Do you have a message for your fans in Brazil?’

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I have lost to the till phoners and the film interrupters.

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