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The Media Research Center, a conservative television watchdog group instituted a study to see how Hollywood represents businessmen and women.

According to their findings they claim that Hollywood unfairly and overwhelmingly casts businessmen and women as "criminal CEOs and murdering MBAs."

The Washington Post reports:

The group's Business & Media Institute watched 129 episodes of the 12 top-rated prime-time shows on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox during the May and November "sweeps" periods of 2005. If you're a TV businessman, you may want hire a crisis-management group to help your image. After which, apparently, you will kill them.

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