Sentences with phrase «on media circus»

Apple is capitalizing on the media circus surrounding Amazon suspending pre-orders on all of Hachettes upcoming titles.

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And, depending on how he performs in the upcoming Republican debates, his candidacy may quickly turn from a summer media circus to legitimate contention.

The prospect that Mr. Zuckerberg, a 33 - year - old billionaire, will be taken to task on Capitol Hill has created intense interest and a media circus.

This week, lost in the media circus caused by the resignation of Premier Stelmach and Finance Minister Morton, the announcement of the Alberta Government's Oilsands Panel and the David Suzuki CBC documentary on the oilsands was a very important announcement in advance of the next Federal Election.

With us facing a trip to Middlesbrough on Monday, it is imperative that we forget the media circus (and the protests) and actually get behind the team as we try to salvage something from this disastrous run.

But hey, Silent Stan shares have increased yet again, you guys feeding the media circus with clicks and views only adds to the attraction of talking about AFC... AFC value has increased partially due to you all being mindless idiots at times and jumping on the media bandwagon.

Brady performed in front of the media for the first time on the third of New England's four Organized Team Activities and although not practicing at full speed, the media circus was there to document every move.

Forget the media - driven circus off the field, the place to keep your eyes this afternoon is on the pitch as Manchester United are the guests at Anfield for this 4th round cup tie.

Following closely on the heels of that media circus was the publication last week of a new book by Dr. Bennet Omalu, Truth Doesn't Have a Side, and interviews in which Dr. Omalu, as he has for several years, argues that letting kids play football is the «definition» of child abuse.

Porn star Stormy Daniels turned a hotly anticipated court appearance by President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen into a three - ring circus on Monday, creating a media frenzy when she rolled up to the hallowed hall of justice in black stiletto heels.

Porn star Stormy Daniels turned a hotly anticipated court appearance by President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen into a three - ring circus on Monday, creating a media frenzy when she rolled...

Describing the whole saga as a «media - political circus» in a statement on social media, Mr. Rawlings said, said the investigative processes must be adhered to without recourse to emotions.

The county executive slammed NIFA for creating what he called «a media circus» and declining to make «hard decisions» by taking a pass on declaring a fiscal emergency to freeze wages.

rom the moment in 2013 when paleoanthropologist Lee Berger posted a plea on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn for «tiny and small, specialised cavers and spelunkers with excellent archaeological, palaeontological and excavation skills,» some experts began grumbling that the excavation of a mysterious hominin in the Rising Star Cave in South Africa was more of a media circus than a serious scientific expedition.

For those not quite old enough to remember, just before the O.J Simpson media circus happened, the saga of Tonya Harding, a working - class skater out of sorts in the skating world, and her rival Nancy Kerrigan, a princess - like figure, played out on tabloid TV shows every night.

Billy Wilder's 1951 portrait of a corrupt media circus in which a down - on - his - luck NYC reporter (Douglas) takes a job with a small - town paper that provides him with no challenges until he exploits the story of a man trapped in a mine.

Its release on video is not a media circus, and in fact, it barely registers as a footnote in Superman history, but fans of animated comic book fare should have little problem being entertained.

David Fincher directs this adaptation of the bestselling thriller by Gillian Flynn about a man whose wife disappears and who then becomes the centre of a media circus when suspicion falls on him.

Kind of a kinder, gentler, but still rather surprising take on Billy Wilder's classic Ace In The Hole, with its media circus and mysterious trickster, but focusing on character rather than «portrait of america.»

Gone Girl Director: David Fincher Starring: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry Synopsis: With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

Yet, somehow this, at times, «over the top» approach seems to work, especially when the film deals with the events surrounding the attack on Kerrigan and the unprecedented real life media circus that ensued at the time.

True to its title, Man on a Ledge follows Sam Worthington's Nick Cassidy as he steps onto the ledge of a New York hotel and threatens to jump unless he receives assistance from a grizzled police psychologist (Elizabeth Banks» Lydia Mercer)- with the media circus that inevitably ensues acting as a cover for a heist being executed by two of Nick's cohorts (Jamie Bell's Joey and Genesis Rodriguez's Angie).

As they walk and talk into the Manhattan night, both flash back to defining life moments, riff on fame, roots, and identity, and get dangerously close — all while he juggles the pressure of an impending media circus marriage to his reality TV - star fiancée (Gabrielle Union).

As the police investigation goes from a media circus to a cold case, the neighbors are forced to reexamine what's going on behind their own closed doors — and to ask how well anyone really knows anyone else.

The mixed media works combine sideshow banners, circus gaudiness, misshapen human forms and animals, creating an alternate history designed to shine light on the abusive nature of these human zoos and the voyeuristic craze of the viewing public.

But whether or not you like them, I think you can agree that all these media celebrities thrive on sensation, and they all seem to have a circus going on around them most of the time.

You seriously don't get that it's not the paper that is deceptive, it's the media circus — interviews and so on where the lead author of the paper not only failed to divulge the limitations, he actively encouraged the belief that those limitations did not exist.

I have watched the media circus surrounding the arrest of a 21 - year - old male on suspicion of having murdered nine people in Charleston.