"flack-catcher" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1972, Man & Nature",
          "text": "The biography of Edward S. Gruson states that “after being flack-catcher to the president of Harvard University during the recent years of student and community unrest,” the author searched for a totally irrelevant area of study and ended up writing Words for Birds.",
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        {
          "ref": "1993, Dean Tjosvold, Learning to Manage Conflict",
          "text": "I don't think I'm cut out to be a flack-catcher.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, William Thomas, Peter Tompkins, Christopher C Bird, Bringing the War Home, page 240",
          "text": "A top tobacco industry PR man, Smith had spent 15 years as senior flack-catcher for Phillip Morris.",
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          "ref": "1972, Man & Nature",
          "text": "The biography of Edward S. Gruson states that “after being flack-catcher to the president of Harvard University during the recent years of student and community unrest,” the author searched for a totally irrelevant area of study and ended up writing Words for Birds.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1993, Dean Tjosvold, Learning to Manage Conflict",
          "text": "I don't think I'm cut out to be a flack-catcher.\"",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "A top tobacco industry PR man, Smith had spent 15 years as senior flack-catcher for Phillip Morris.",
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