Posted on 04/12/2021 7:20:35 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Network: the last great film about The News
When a new epidemic is launched and promoted, despite the lack of good science and good evidence, it is jacked up on television screens. Images begin to flow:
An emergency medical vehicle on a street. EMT personnel, in hazmat suits, load a man strapped down to a stretcher, into the van. On another street, a man collapses on the sidewalk. We see a quarantined man sitting inside a huge plastic bubble on a third street. Cut to an airport lobby. Soldiers are patrolling the space among the crowds. Cut to a lab. Close-up of vials of liquid. Camera pulls back. Techs in light green scrubs are placing the vials into slots of a table-top machine. Auditorium—-a man on a platform, wearing a doctor’s white coat, is pointing a wand at a large screen, on which a chart is displayed, for the audience. Back to the street. People are wearing face masks.
I’ll have to watch “Network” some time
You definitely must watch it, more relevant today than it was even then.
Apparently so
I’m glad this was posted to let me know
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Keeping that one, for sure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(1976_film)
We don’t have an antenna or cable so we don’t get local channels. I catch the 6pm news at a buddy’s place on occasion. The last few times it was more like a covid infomercial than news. Covid has replaced Trump as the thing to report on.
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