Word: murdochianism
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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...
This time they are the mismanagers of a commercial zoo that has been acquired by a Murdochian media buccaneer (Kline plays him too, complete with Down Under accent). They are charged with getting its profit margin up to his brutal rate (20%). Their plan is to dispense with all the zoo's sweet little fuzzballs and stock the place exclusively with man-eaters. If violence sells on TV and in the movies, why shouldn't it do the same for them...
PRAVDA. A stinging British satire of Murdochian media moguls more concerned with money than truth gets its U.S. premiere from the Guthrie troupe in Minneapolis...
PRAVDA. A stinging British satire of Murdochian media moguls more concerned with money than truth gets its U.S. premiere from the Guthrie troupe in Minneapolis...