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COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
"The Day After Tomorrow" is about a threat that confronts us all. Two things make the threat especially frightening. One, it is already in our midst and may, without warning, assume catastrophic proportions. Two, there is almost nothing that we can do to fend it off. There may have been a chance to forestall the calamity, but we chose not to act on our responsibilities, and that chance has effectively passed. All we can do is wait. This planetary menace has a name. It is called Rupert Murdoch.
"The Day After Tomorrow" is brought to us by Twentieth Century Fox, one of Murdoch's proudest possessions. Whether the makers of the movie--notably the director, co-writer, and co-producer, Roland Emmerich--were paying a touching, unconscious tribute to the chairman and C.E.O. of the Fox Entertainment Group or whether they were operating under direct orders is hard to tell. Let us simply note that there is barely a scene in which some fearless Fox News reporter, microphone logo to the fore, does not wrestle with the elements in order to keep the public informed. When the action switches to Europe, the flame passes to Sky News, part of British Sky Broadcasting Group (Prop., Rupert Murdoch). Emmerich, who gave much thought to the perils of world domination in "Independence Day," has clearly enjoyed a change of heart. Dominating the world, it would now seem, is no bad...
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