Network (1976)

Regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by the ​​New York Times culture writer and author of Mad As Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Television, Dave Itzkoff. We cover one of the most powerful and prescient exposes of media and corporate control, Paddy Chayefsky’s 1976’s classic, Network.

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Dune News (00:07:46)
• Dave Itzkoff Interview (00:12:36)
• NetworkRoundtable Discussion (00:28:08)
• Your Letters (01:38:00)

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Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by Haitch
Transcripts by Sophie Shin
The episode was edited by Megan Hayward of EditAudio and produced by Haitch
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