Media Depiction
These incidents were the inspiration behind an episode of Law & Order: SVU featuring Robin Williams as the hoaxer, who identified himself as "detective Milgram", a reference to the famous Milgram experiment that tested obedience to authority. The incidents also inspired the short film Plainview, which played the festival circuit in 2007/2008, and the 2012 film by Craig Zobel titled Compliance, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
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“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)