For those who don’t know, Network is about UBS, a fictitious broadcast network, and one of its top anchors, Howard Beale, played by Peter Finch. Finch’s performance won him an Oscar. On the verge of a ...

Network' turns 50 — and Paddy Chayefsky's mad-as-hell satire somehow feels more shocking, more sobering, and more timely than ever.

The UBS News Hour had quite the lineup back in 1976. There was Sybil the Soothsayer, reading the future. Miss Mata Hari revealed her Skeletons in the Closet. And of course, there was the main ...

50 years later, Sidney Lumet’s Network still feels surprisingly (and hauntingly) relevant. The media landscape has moved on, but the bones of the film’s satirical commentary are timeless. The ...

On Nov. 27, 1976, the Academy Award-winning film “Network” was released in the U.S.. The film’s massive impact continues to the present day. The words of news anchor Howard Beale addressing his ...

Since Stephen Colbert rarely breaks character, it's possible on occasion to forget that his Report persona is a send-up of hyperbole-prone cable media. But its interviews like this one with the New ...

We’ve got a real problem…this is a mathematical fact. Tens of trillions of dollars are being extracted from the United States of America. Democrats aren’t doing it, Republicans aren’t doing it, an ...