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The public, in its wisdom, opted for the nettlesome media, first used in this sense, to anyone's knowledge, in a 1923 article in Advertising & Selling called “Class Appeal in the Mass Media.”
Mintz means to start an argument, to lay out a polemic, but what's nettlesome is not his answer but the question.
The pay is bad, the hours are irregular, and there's that nettlesome FBI background check.
Indeed, it is hard to square one's indignation at being patronized with the nettlesome suspicion that he may be right.