I stumbled across this diatribe from the movie, Network from 1976. I thought that it was entertaining and thought provoking. What do you think about the speech? What truths do you think emerge from these four minutes. I guess that some people were thinking about these topics in the 70s too. I wonder how this speech would be different if it was remade for 2009. Thoughts??
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I think the speech is still very applicable to today's media. The only difference now is that instead of just television, the press can feed people what they want to hear through so many more mediums. His line about only being able to look to ourselves for the real truth speaks to what we were discussing in class about sifting through the bias of the news and breaking out of our own information cocoons to find the real stories. Even though we've repeatedly discussed it, it's still discouraging to hear the actor explain that so much of the media abandons their responsibility to report accurate news for the more profitable option of telling consumers only what they want to hear. I guess it's not too hard to believe that ratings and profits are just as important to the media today as they were 30 years ago though.
ReplyDeleteHe sounds like a preacher preaching a different gospel. The speech is engaging and very convincing.The idea of being illusioned by what we watch on TV is very reall. Take for instance some diet commercials; no exercises just swallow a pill and your weight will come down. This is what most people want to hear.This is not at all any different from what was said 33 years ago. If this speech was to be redone today, i think there would be no changes. The media owes the people the obligation of what it is rather than what someone believe it is.-Annah
ReplyDeleteI love this video, I think it makes an excellent point, one of which I am always preaching to my friends. I like the part when he begins yelling at the audience to turn off their tvs. People are viewing subjects they could be reading about, like the news. Instead they have to be spoon fed information, also being told when to laugh, when to cry, a sensored type of emotion. He didn't say thet in his speech, but it was something that I thought of because of his rants against people being tv zombies
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