Possible Clues:

• Tyrant
• He may get a poor press, aptly enough
• Work with media alternative for tyrant
• One cruelly subjugating others
• The mighty to the meek, historically
• One tyrannises part of media in poor resort
• Persecutor of proposers
• One is hard on the poor to put the squeeze in the poor
• One who keeps another in subjection
• Pole thus imprisoned by proper sort of tyrant