Network is a 1976 American satirical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System (UBS), and its struggle with poor ratings. The film was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, and Beatrice Straight.
As per my understanding Network is a good movie, highlighting two major issues with media and journalism. Issue with media is that they are more concerned about their ratings than content quality and standards according to Ethical and sometimes legal points of view, TRP’s are more important than content’s bad impact over viewers and upon society. They way they converted anchor’s desperate move into a profitable business.
Another issues highlighted by this particular movie is the issue of Activist nature of journalist as they start taking action against something going wrong rather than just seeking and reporting truth as he started a campaign against the merger CCA with Arabian Company.
What we found out that these are issues since the time when media and journalism started and till now we are facing similar issues with media and journalism, which shows that media is the game of money and power and people associated with this business can manipulate and use this power according to their interest.
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Muhammad Raheel
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