"Surprise, surprise, the trade union paymasters of the Labour party have come out with a poll showing Labour is ahead.
The CIA depicted here is the rogue agency of Hollywood fiction, writing its own rules, hoodwinking its paymasters and betraying the values for which America purports to stand.
"As their paymasters, the public has the right to know far more about MPs' jobs on the side.
In effect, Media Lens is saying, they trim their sails and pull their punches to accommodate their paymasters, their presence in the paper's Comment columns little more than a gesture to pluralism or dissent.
But it's always worth reminding ourselves that today's Isis triggermen and their paymasters are responsible for whom they slaughter and why, just as Blair, Bush and their armies were for their mistakes (sometimes crimes).
Most were published by the semi-official Fars news agency, whose paymasters are the elite revolutionary guards, and Keyhan newspaper, which is under the direct control of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
It remains to be seen how he panders to both Greece's paymasters in Brussels and Frankfurt and to his own broad political base, which includes anti-capitalist activists deeply opposed not just to austerity but to the euro itself.
On the same day that Mr Cable gave his speech, for example, a group of 242 employers in the creative sector announced a proposal for a co-investment partnership.Yet however scientific the spending decisions, the risk of faddishness or cronyism will exist so long as politicians are the ultimate paymasters.
But if their political paymasters balk at the $8 billion the ILC is expected to cost, and the AWAKE collaboration delivers the goods, then they may have no choice.
Their state paymasters began to link cash to professors' publications and their ability to attract outside money.
When Hamas won power at the ballot box in 2006, Palestine's foreign paymasters cancelled all development aid, limiting help to humanitarian supplies.
