On Thursday evening, a portion of the British media exercised its own prerogative: to attack the judges behind the ruling.
When I was in the band it was akin to the early Who and when Sid (6) replaced me it was more a media exercise.
In contrast, the government's commitment to the "northern powerhouse" has always been a media exercise, just like the now-forgotten "big society".
The country has reached the point where things feel so fundamentally wrong that every suggested remedy seems like a media exercise, a kind of nationwide spin cycle.
Understandably, at a time of increasing austerity and falling wages, a lot of people are very angry about this, as evidenced by an ill-advised social media exercise by the British Gas services director.
Mr Robinson said he did not want to be involved in a media exercise that he claimed was about "building up expectation, when really what's required is for us all to get down to work".
She suggests teens aim to spend no more than two hours a day on digital media, exercise more and try to hang out with friends face-to-face to increase happiness — all things adults could probably use more of as well.
Horowitz says he tries to spend set amounts of time each day on billable client hours, writing, email, social media, exercise and office and personal tasks.
The song was originally intended for a rock opera Townshend had been working on, Lifehouse, which was a multi-media exercise based on his followings of the Indian religious avatar Meher Baba, showing how spiritual enlightenment could be obtained via a combination of band and audience.
While politicians do their best to control it, media also exercises its influence on politicians.
The program, he stressed, was intended only to enable purchasers of digital media to exercise so-called fair use rights in copying material they had already acquired.
