2013 September 25, Neal Ungerleider, “Put On A Helmet, And You’re In The Story: Why Virtual Reality Journalism Is The Future”, inFast Company[2]:
With the bulky, heavy helmet for the film strapped on, I was inside a fully immersive virtual world. With de la Peña playingminder and holding a tether which prevented me from bumping into walls, I somehow ended up inside the news story.
Amonitor assigned by theauthorities to someone, such as aforeignvisitor (to exercise control over their contacts with thepopulace) or a journalist or someone who is speaking to journalists (to monitor and control what they say).
1982, Paul Eddy, Magnus Linklater, Peter Gillman,The Falklands War, page212:
The twenty-eight journalists who sailed with the task force were accompanied by seven censors or 'minders' from the MoD, as well as by military press officers attached to each unit.
2005, Roger V. Seifert, Tom Sibley,United They Stood: The Story of the UK Firefighters' Dispute 2002-4, Lawrence & Wishart Limited:
Once again the employers, now closely gripped by Central Governmentminders, offered 4 % now and 7 % in one year's time, and all tied to modernisation. This was not what the FBU had bargained for. So the strike started.
2008,Poor George's Almanac: A 2008 Calendar,→ISBN, page101:
Pieter Tans, a 20-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employee, was told not to use the phrase 'climate change' in paper titles and abstracts for the Seventh International Carbon Dioxide Conference. When an official flew in from Washington to be present for an interview Tans gave to the BBC, Mr. Tans wondered why a U.S. government “minder”, reminiscent of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, was required.
2009, Thomas Rid, Marc Hecker,War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age, page83:
Rear Admiral John Woodward, the operational commander, summarized the instructions to the six MoDminders as “co-operation, yes; information, no.”
2010 Oct, Tim Butcher, “Our Man in Liberia”, inHistory Today, volume60, number10, pages10–17:
Throughout Greene's writing he repeatedly refers to dodging government control in Liberia, first by entering the country incognito and then by completing his journey without governmentminders.
2015, Tony Harcup,Journalism: Principles and Practice, SAGE,→ISBN, page79:
[…] some other journalists were becoming "embedded" with the military as one way of reporting from the front: living with the military,[…] and reporting under military restrictions. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, embedded reporters tended to adopt the perspective of their hosts andminders, as US journalist Gordon Dillow later admitted[…]
2016 May 11, Anna Fifield, “I went to North Korea and was told I ask too many questions”, inThe Washington Post:
Was she really ill? Was she really a patient? We will never know. Suddenly, it was time to go and ourminders were herding us back onto the bus.
(obsolete) One who is taken care of, such as apauperchild in the care of private person; award.
