> this is remarkable material. It's
> as if Beck watched Network and didn't realize that it was satire.
Fox News’s Mad, Apocalyptic, Tearful Rising Star http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/business/media/30beck.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
> In an interview, Mr. Beck, who recently rewatched the 1976 film
> “Network,” said he identified with the character of Howard Beale, the
> unhinged TV news anchorman who declares on the air that he is “mad as
> hell.”
>
> “I think that’s the way people feel,” Mr. Beck said. “That’s the way I
> feel.”
SA
^^^^^
CB: Interesting. Of course, substantively Beck is sort of the opposite of the movie character. Howard Beale was fed up with the media monopoly corporation, the" system". Beck is a rightwinger " "fed up" on behalf of monopoly capitalism.
The actor who played Beale died in real life soon after the film.