A serious piece of journalism that concentrates on the background and interpretation of events rather than on the news or action; a think piece.
‘the New York Times offered us a thoughtful thumbsucker on “The Psychology of Oil Pricing”’
‘The piece is less of a thumbsucker than it sounds.’
‘I'm not here to do a thumbsucker on this show, because I'm tired & it's all been said before.’
‘Anne Gerhart has a real thumbsucker trying to ‘puzzle out’ the logic of the crime.’
‘Contrast how Helen Thomas thinks to Elizabeth Bumiller's pathetic thumbsucker in Izvestia on the Hudson.’
‘I just read a Christian Science Monitor thumbsucker about the identity of the next Pope.’
‘A trivial swing of a hundred thousand votes in half a dozen states and you'd be writing pretentious thumbsuckers about how cultural issues were losing their ability to attract votes for Republicans.’
‘Write a thumbsucker about whether we ever sent people into Cambodia!’
‘Of course, at this point, writing about Bush's credibility problems is almost a thumbsucker, isn't it?’
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