Barkerburgh

Anybody have a copy of 1976’s ‘Network‘?

Its gestalt looms large in the opening episode of my favourite new show, Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip‘.

I haven’t seen the movie in years, but am of the opinion that modern networks and programming executives have tacitly agreed that their secret goal has been, for a generation, to deliberately produce and broadcast television that will eventually make sensible people stick their heads out their windows and shout “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” because it sells more commercials for the plebs, the hoi polloi, and the ravening underclass sub-omegaloids.

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