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Rupert Murdoch, Cinematized
Rupert Murdoch's recent acquisition of the Wall Street
Journal has generated no end of controversy and dire prognosticating. The larger-than-life media tycoon, some fear,
will turn the sober, respectable Journal into something resembling the (Murdoch-owned)
New York Post, with its screaming headlines and giddy lust for blood and
circuses.
Murdoch-induced paranoia – and the bashing it inspires – is nothing new, as Jack Shafer explores on Slate.com in an article and video that discuss the various film and television incarnations of the media mogul. Shafer calls Murdoch-ian characters "cinematic shorthand for filmmakers in a hurry to depict opportunism, greed, vulgarity, and nastiness."
Instead of watching Fox News, why not have your own Murdoch Film Festival?











