Plug Me In to the Network

I recently picked up a copy of the movie Network (1976) directed by Sidney Lumet. Written by the late, and obviously brilliant Paddy Chayefsky.

I had completely forgotten what a total gem this movie is. The fact that it was intended as satire, speaks volumes to the reality of today's modern, perverse MSM.

There are so many wonderful examples of the satire art, which you will see imitated by real life today. The only difference, of course, is that the movie is funny.

A reality show driving, airwave prophet Howard Beale (Peter Finch) exposes his mental film by opening his personal darkroom door on national TV. His longtime friend and seat warmer Executive chum Max Schumacher (William Holden) end their long careers through a fast paced real life script, penned by sensational ratings spinster Diane Christensen (Faye Dunaway). The whole ratings party include the features of terrorist propagandist Great Ahmed Kahn (Arthur Burghart) and corporate knee climber Frank Hackett (Robert Duvall). Near the end, dark Rovian stereotype Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty) delivers a brief, but brilliant, speech about the new world order.

It is all there.

Just look at today's pathetic MSM:

• Countless attempts to defame our military, by the press.
• Fake documents pushed by CBS over President Bush's Guard service.
• Reporters trying to push a fictitious death toll of Hurricane Katrina, and paddling canoes through 12 inches of water, across the camera lens.
• Frequent photo and image doctoring by Reuters and AP trolls.
• The recent NBC attempt to solicit fabricated racism at NASCAR
• And just today, there is a reporter for the San Francisco chronicle, obviously suffering from some rare form of sexually transmitted encephalitis, who is arguing that since the KY lubrication level on our southern border dropped from 99.9% to 97.6%, we are now responsible for an increase in the death toll of criminal aliens, who put themselves in harm's way.

And those were examples I thought of at the speed I could type them! You know all the rest.

You must go grab a copy of Network and watch it.

The story line and dialogue are loaded with the rich chocolate Ovaltine™ of profane flair and philosophical flatulence. Every character, associated with the ‘new system’, is mortally tethered to ratings and political obsessions. The entire sequence of events will have you laughing with open-jawed recognition of all of those media pundits, street protesters and political power brokers you love to both love and hate.

"I am mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" - Howard Beale

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