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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Prophets of the Airwaves, Mad and Otherwise
In the 1976 movie Network, evening news anchor Howard Beale, portrayed by Peter Finch, has a psychotic breakdown and declares that he will blow his brains out on the air next Tuesday. Beale had earlier been informed that because of … Continue reading