But there is no denying that even by the sophisticated standards of today's media manipulators, he was a master at grabbing headlines.

While a highly competent media manipulator, his competence does not extend beyond this single talent of his (though he believes it does).

In recent years, however, the news divisions have been fighting a losing battle against commercial pressures, media manipulators and the nature of television itself.

So proposals for dealing with the media manipulators the next time out are welcome.

Will television news be able to resist the spin controllers and media manipulators?

He had become, not necessarily in this order, a financial expert, a public-relations adviser, a media manipulator, and a shrewd politician.

Image makers and media manipulators have already done so much to blur the lines between fact and fiction, art and commerce.

As a media manipulator, growing from his years as a journalist and printer, Garvey knew how to communicate with his audience.

Patrick never was - and still isn't - much of a media manipulator.

The media manipulators are themselves controlled by the medium's conventions, and the audience is an accomplice to its own exploitation.