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Guardian: Hacking away at the truth: Alan Rusbridger's Orwell lecture
[The Guardian] - There are further echoes, inevitably, of films about the quixotic, sometimes cruel exercise of journalistic power in Citizen Kane and the Sweet Smell of Success. What does all this add up to? It speaks to one form of media exceptionalism.
Google News: Media family business icon Hearst dies
[Campden FB] - William was also the model for film Citizen Kane, considered by many as one of the greatest American films of all time. Hearst Corporation, whose operations span more than 300 magazines including Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan, television stations
Guardian: Roger Ebert: 'I'm an optimistic person'
[The Guardian] - Citizen Kane, The Third Man, La Dolce Vita, 2001, Vertigo, The General, Ozu's Floating Weeds and Kurosawa's Ikiru. The one I'd take to the island is La Dolce Vita, because it has been a touchstone since of my own developing maturity.
Google News: LFF 2011: The Artist Review
[HeyUGuys.co.uk] - There are allusions to other films too, although these are not always quite so rooted to this exact period in Hollywood's history, including an amusing nod to the famous breakfast table sequence in Citizen Kane. There is even one sequence in which
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