Sentence examples for fictional press from inspiring English sources

When we said that Miramax was a big, fat company, another spokesman, MATTHEW HILTZIK, invoked the name of the film's fictional press agent.

Changes in the American landscape as a direct consequence of this show include a) Martin Sheen is now on a billboard roughly every 50 metres, standing next to a luxury roadster or an insurance policy, smiling through perfect teeth; and b) a White House spokesman offered the post of press officer to Allison Janney, the actress who plays CJ, the fictional press officer in the series.

America's favorite fictional press secretary was less than impressed. .

In it, he promotes his new album, "Bush," at a fictional press conference.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's press office took advantage of April Fool's Day this weekend by jabbing the local media -- and a GOP presidential candidate -- in a fictional press release.

No such sense of glamour and unearned, misused power is present in most 20th-century fictional portrayals of the press, where hacks typically toil pointlessly and joylessly (from Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts to Michael Frayn's Towards the End of the Morning).

Bean's chief bile is reserved for the newspapers, here represented by a fictional tabloid called the Free Press (though glancing references are made to a paper called the Guardener whose masthead boasts "we think so you don't have to").

Both Ian and Nick are to some degree in the film business and, like others in Kureishi's fictional world, they are hard pressed to extend their frame of reference beyond the boundaries of popular culture.

Ramirez was dubbed Carlos the Jackal by the press, named after the fictional terrorist in the 1971 Frederick Forsyth novel, The Day of the Jackal, which was turned into a popular film.

While Roth pressed on with his fictional project undaunted, Alexievich thought, in effect, Why be envious?

Dr. Kern published books with The Johns Hopkins U. Press (on French Dramatic Theory); Yale U. Press (on Existential Thought and Fictional Technique); Columbia U. Press (on Farcical Laughter); Prentice Hall (on Sartre Criticism).