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September 27, 2007

The Indy’s website fails its screen test

By Axegrinder axeblog

One of the hot new films doing the rounds is A Mighty Heart, which is about the abduction and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002.

There’s a scene in the film where an article about shoe-bomber Richard Reid is being viewed on The Independent’s website.

Says my man behind the producer’s chair: “They all thought that The Indy’s website was so poor they didn’t want to show it to the viewers and so recreated another one for the movie.”

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