By Howard Beale.
Whenver I see Glen Beck on the TV-either at work or normally in the gym, where I crank up the speed on the treadmill because my anger towards the good Mr. Beck gets pumped up-I always think of the movie Network.
Because in the personage of Glenn Beck, Bill O’ Reilly, and Michelle Malkin-the absurd satire of Paddy Chayfesky’s story has become reality.
One of the things that’s great about Network is that we see how thin the divide between news and sensationalism really are. And we also get a chance to peek inside what people of the 1970s feared most about TV’s future – a future that actually came to pass in the reality TV and talk show infested tube of today.