Sentence examples for media commodities from inspiring English sources

A few war correspondents today are pure media commodities: CNN's Christiane Amanpour is reputed to earn in the region of a $1m a year.

The empire: Real estate, media, commodities and hotels in some 15 Asian countries.

Traceable to the expansion of markets for media commodities, this special feature of politics that has now occupied the centre-stage of election campaigns in different parts of the world has leaders constantly performing their defiance, anger, or hurt on behalf of a constituency.

And that's the real point of the superstar's story, with this sad corollary: his career's demise is as much a media commodity as its rise.

To judge from his gut and the dreadlocks sprouting on his head, he has already quit playing the manicured media commodity who, in keeping with the false intimacy of the entertainment sphere, is known by his or her first name (Joaquin, Julia, George).

Her writings, rallies and television appearances have both offended and inspired, transforming Ms. Geller from an Internet obscurity, who once videotaped herself in a bikini as she denounced "Islamofascism," into a media commodity who has been profiled on "60 Minutes" and whose phraseology has been adopted by Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin.

Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota (1999-2003), was a hot media commodity as the Bush/Cheney administration was preparing for its invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Surkis is a successful businessman with interests in oil, banking, the news media and commodity trading and is also a member of the Ukrainian Parliament.

Baudrillard goes beyond the Frankfurt School by applying the semiological theory of the sign to describe how commodities, media, and technologies provide a universe of illusion and fantasy in which individuals become overpowered by consumer values, media ideologies and role models, and seductive technologies like computers which provide worlds of cyberspace.

"Accessing media is a commodity now," said Sheldon Gilbert, the founder and chief executive of Proclivity Media, a company that specializes in digital advertising technologies.

In the American credit markets, corporate bond investors make sectoral bets of one sort or another cyclicals versus defensives, commodities versus media, utilities versus financials.