media darling
noun1
Idiomatic A celebrity who is especially popular and who receives frequent and very favorable attention in the news media.
- TV Correspondent Alexander Krutkov became an overnight media darling with his piercing on-the-spot dispatches.1986 June 30, John Moody, “Gorbachev Loosens the Media's Reins”, in Time:
- “[T]he coverage of Obama has been so positive that you have to call him, though I really hate this term, a media darling.”2008 February 14, John Heilemann, “The Meme Prisoner”, in New York Magazine, retrieved 13 Sep 2010: