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Sat 08 Aug 2007Zeitgeist: the nonsense
PresentTense: Davin O'DwyerWho doesn't love a good conspiracy theory? Most of us, of course, prefer our conspiracies to be entirely fictional. An early scene in The Bourne Ultimatum, for instance, sees the CIA dispatch an assassin to dispose of a meddlesome Guardian journalist in Waterloo Station.
While this exaggerates the risks of our profession somewhat (I think I speak for most of my colleagues in saying that we can walk through Heuston Station, and even Connolly, with neither fear nor trepidation), it does make for marvellously tense movie-making.
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