It inoculates him somewhat against Putin's favorite line of attack, that critics are Western stooges, and, more important, helps broaden his appeal beyond the young, social-media-savvy cubicle workers who are his base.
Doris Miller Sally Fieldd), a seventyish bookkeeper, is a fish out of water in her cubicle at a hip young media company in Chelsea.
Before releasing the statement to the media, a centcom representative visited Al Jazeera's cubicle in the Coalition Media Center to run it by Omar al-Issawi, a reporter and producer at the network.
Women at some of his media stops on Friday emerged from their cubicles to take pictures with him.
Semireclined in a dim cubicle before a magnificent spread of consumer electronics and media, I struggled to take advantage of every appointment (game console, DVD player, fast Internet, books, magazines), as I was paying by the hour.
The inhabitants of his universe are in essence well-connected cubicle rats, or junior high school clique members with media access and large standing armies, or perhaps Renaissance courtiers with BlackBerrys and power suits.
Sure you could say our media technologies, starting with the book, have tended to sequester us in cubicles, but they have also been, and continue to be, among the most cherished company we keep.
The news media contingent was taken to an English language class, where about 50 students popped up and down in cubicles to answer rapid-fire questions from a teacher about a story they had read.
There are no cubicle walls.
