Network

This week, we dive deeper into the role of the fourth estate, as we discuss Network, the Oscar-winning film that was meant to be a wild satire at the time it was released, but ended up uncannily predicting the future.
Some additional reading material:
Mad As Hell (us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062246/madashell), Dave Itzkoff's book about Network
Directors' Guild of America post (dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/0305-May-2003/…) about Sidney Lumet at a 2003 screening of Network
Vanity Fair article on the legacy of Network (vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/03/awards-inside…)(which includes thoughts from Aaron Sorkin)

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