Word: murdochian
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Caveat: Company is not Office Space, but it is not trying to be. It is not a romance, but a response to the current corporate climate. Foreman’s key speech is an indictment of the meaninglessness of corporate-speak that freezes the Murdochian C.E.O. of his company, inciting the audience to cheer. But sometimes the astonishingly charismatic cast gels so well that the movie just coasts into fairy-tale territory. Particularly during the scenes of Alex and Duryea finding happiness with each other, in the words of another film’s tagline, “you will...
...Motives. What’s more, the newspaper pushes its right-wing agenda under the guise of honest journalism. The Herald is innocently packaged as an easy-to-read page-turner and priced below the competition. Masquerading as some wholesome, populist hometown rag, the paper force-feeds its propagandistic, Murdochian worldview to unwitting consumers...