So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now! Turn them off right now! Turn them off and ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

"Network" (1976)

Howard Beale - Mad Prophet of the Airwaves

{snip}

This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation.

This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers.

This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world.

And woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong people.

Howard Beale - Turn off your TV's

Jeroenymus .JMVP
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Classic scene from Network, 1976 movie with Peter Finch telling about mass media lying television networks. Television is a g*d*amn amusement park.

[msongs]

1. replace "tube" with "internet" for the new era nt

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. Al Jazeera. With a bit of fine tuning, granted, what television could be.

[orthoclad]

3. "Blow up your tv",

as the covidly-late John Prine said.
"The revolution will not be televised."

The medium itself is destructive. Content takes second place to a medium which instills a hypnotic, receptive state in the viewer. Listening to radio or reading requires some engagement of the brain, the imagination, but tv is a whole world.

"The medium is the massage".

I blame much of our current troubles on the fact that generations now of people have spent countless hours in that strange manipulable mind-state.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Gil Scott-Heron

Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

lanklan
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Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Pieces of a Man (1971)
Flying Dutchman/RCA - New York

Johnny Pate - conductor
Brian Jackson - piano
Ron Carter - bass
Pretty Purdie - drums
Burt Jones - electric guitar
Hubert Laws - flute, saxophone

[orthoclad]

5. I stopped watching tv after that came out

Took a while to break the habit. Now I can't stand the sound, have to leave the room.

[moniss]

6. One of the greatest movies ever made

and William Holden was fantastic. They don't have writing on this level any longer.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. It might have been you, but I remarked to a DUer a few months ago that I thought that

William Holden was incapable of turning in a bad performance.

And good evening.

[moniss]

9. It may have been and

you are right on the money.

[moniss]

7. One of the best from one of the best