"Citizens" who speak at town meetings are hired, scripted actors

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William Gibson? I want to say Pattern Recognition, but I can’t find my copy right now. There was a minor character, a woman whose job was to strike up conversations with people in bars, coffeeshops etc. and steer the topic to whatever product she was representing.

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In 1938, Orson Welles did a radio version of The Man Who Was Thursday that’s available for download (or streaming) at archive.org.

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