The Nation, August 12th, 1996
Similar merger announcement statements by Ted Turner of Turner Broadcasting and Gerald Levin of Time Warner served as a reminder of the increasing lack of choice available in the mass media. An observer might even be reminded of the bland pod people in the film 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.'
One of the better scares of the 1950s came from Don Siegel's idiosyncratically edgy thriller Invasion of the Body Snatchers, made on the cheap for Allied Artists. That's the movie in which society is taken over by blandly totalitarian pod people. In 1956, of course, the pods were thought to be communis...
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