It has been splashed at bad boyfriends, successful executives, reality show contestants, users of YouTube and Facebook, and, obviously, celebrities.
The term has deep roots in psychoanalytic literature, and gets bandied about so often and assigned to so many people -- Madonna, Eliot Spitzer, Saddam Hussein, to say nothing of bad boyfriends, successful executives, reality show contestants, users of YouTube and Facebook.
In an interesting analogy that brings in some of the social dimensions that many writers have thought are intrinsic to consciousness, Dennett has compared a buffer to an executive's press secretary, who is responsible for "keeping up appearances," whether or not they coincide with executive realities.
Television executives love reality programming because it is cheap.
Corporate executives, in reality, are not suffering at all.
"It has to offer the same benefits to us as to the big players," he said, referring to the big banks operating in London, which have generally remained silent on the OM bid despite the sense among some of them that, in the words of one executive, "the reality is that iX has a lot more support out of the public eye".
Looks like Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs' reality distortion field is portable, because it now appears to have made a trip with Jobs to Memphis, Tenn.
The once MTV VJ has become a budding actress, beauty executive and reality TV sensation all while juggling motherhood and wife-hood.
Back then, numerous broadcast executives, fearful that reality programming would not bring in big advance advertising money, distanced themselves from reality shows.
In the furor that followed, Fox executives disavowed their reality specials.
FactoryMade Ventures was formed in September by J. J. Abrams, the producer and director, and John Fogelman, a former agent, with a goal of developing content like original programming from Mr. Abrams and other entertainment executives like the reality television producer Thom Beers.
