October 03, 2022

Network (1976)

2 hours 4 minutes

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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