It's also about how this corruption affects the people who report the news and those who run these organizations. Both the talent and the suits are demoralized and destroyed.
The first half of the movie is really good, I think, but the second half isn't very well worked out. News anchor Howard Beale goes nuts, and the network exploits him, and it hires some black militants so it can exploit them, too, for higher and higher ratings.
The ruthless TV people exploit anyone with a soul.
It's kind of like "The Truman Show," in which the TV people are ruthless. Both these movies foreshadow the rise of reality TV in our own time.
But the end of "Network" didn't work for me. They set up a killing on their own TV show, supposedly to fight back against the big corporation. Huh? Whose ox is getting gored here? Strong message, weak drama.
I thought "The Truman Show" was better.
-- Roger
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"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
Or something like that.
Anyway, one of the funnier moments in film!
That's odd. I found it kind of tragic. The poor guy is having a breakdown.
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