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Did Great Movie of 1976 Predict Our Broken Present?
"Network" turns 50 -- and somehow feels more shocking, more sobering, and more timely than ever
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Did One of the Greatest Movies of 1976 Predict Our Effed-Up Present? 'Network' turns 50 -- and somehow feels more shocking, more sobering, and more timely than ever[image or embed] -- Rolling Stone (@rollingstone.com) Feb 21, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Did One of the Greatest Movies of 1976 Predict Our Effed-Up Present? 'Network' turns 50 -- and somehow feels more shocking, more sobering, and more timely than ever[image or embed]
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"The story of our nation is pockmarked and littered with atrocities, oppression, terror, and violence. History is not pretty.
Yet the one thing that a divided country can actually agree on right now is that what's transpiring, in this age of the Great Step Backwards, is not normal, regardless of how those in power are trying to normalize it.
Not even low ratings can stop it. Network gazed into its crystal ball and broadcast back a worst-case-scenario diatribe that, if you paid close enough attention, doubled as a warning.
We don't just live in Howard Beale's world now. We're stuck in a world dictated by millions of Diane Christensens.
Fifty years later, Lumet and Chayefsky's brilliant work of art is neither a satire nor reportage. It's a horror movie. It's reality."
#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-21 09:30 PM | Reply
Boomers LoL....
#2 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-21 11:43 PM | Reply
Too many are too bamboozled by the avalanche of social media that was spilled on society to realize the scale of the nefarious right-wing bamboozling that has happened. Millennials and older can still remember the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine and the beginning of Fox News
#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-02-22 07:08 AM | Reply
#2
Sooners, rofl! Have you submitted your DNA to Chinese Security yet?
#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-22 10:37 AM | Reply
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