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International The Future of Television in the 80s
Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:44 AM
BBC reports:
Police have accused a TV presenter in Brazil of being involved in organised drug trafficking and ordering killings to get rid of rivals and boost ratings.We have already been here. We have already seen this kind of hyper-violent TV show. Not in reality, of course, but in pre-cyberpunk science fiction films made around the middle of the 80s.Wallace Souza, who is also a state legislator, says the claims are an attempt by rivals to smear him and that there is no evidence to back them.
But the police say he ordered killings in the state of Amazonas and alerted TV crews to get them to the scene first.
His TV show was halted late last year as police stepped up their inquiry.
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Max headroom had an episode about this if I recall, and that show was supposed to tkae place in the early 21st century. the Future is now.
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It wasn't about news exactly, but Death Race 2000 and The Running Man are in a related genre from the 70s and 80s.
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