He's too much of a media manipulator.
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I get very irritated when people imply that the way she interacted with ordinary people was the carefully staged act of an arch media manipulator.
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A serial loser of elections, he was regarded as a perennial plotter and shameless media manipulator, even by his colleagues.
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She's what we call a media manipulator.
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