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Re:What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance by pavlov on Sunday March 17, 2019 @11:08AM (#19414394)
Rupert Murdoch was overtly portrayed as a Bond villain in one of the late ‘90s films...
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Re:What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance by skosch on Sunday March 17, 2019 @11:53AM (#19414614)
Interesting, that's how I remembered it too!

However, Wikipedia says: "While many reviewers compared Elliot Carver to Rupert Murdoch, Feirstein based the character on Robert Maxwell." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Never_Dies)

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Re:What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance by tsunamifury on Sunday March 17, 2019 @12:02PM (#19414675)
Either were just Edward Burnays archetypes.
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