Network – and four decades later Trump becomes President [Media Notes 2]
I don’t know whether or not I saw Network when it was originally released in 1976, nor for that matter, whether I watched it in whole or in part on TV sometime during the intervening four decades. Whatever the case, I watched it last night on Netflix. WOW. I can see why it won four Oscars, three for acting and one for Paddy Chayefsky’s screenplay.
And is plays interestingly against the current Trump and social media era.
The news anchor for UBS, Howard Beale, is to be dropped because of declining ratings. Читать дальше...