“I don't have to tell you things are bad,” Network’s news-anchor protagonist, Howard Beale, tells us, looking directly at the camera. “Everybody knows things are bad.” He was speaking to the audience ...

If I could, I would make a song out of Howard Beale’s rant on national TV from Sidney Lumet’s Network (1976) and make it the national anthem of every country. Maybe that way, we would have nagged our ...

Times are so tough that I’ve come to recall actor Peter Finch’s rant in the 1976 movie “Network.” ...