This week, we dive deeper into the role of the fourth estate, as we discuss Network, the Oscar-winning film that was meant to be a wild satire at the time it was released, but ended up uncannily predicting the future.Some additional reading material:<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062246/madashell">Mad As Hell</a>, Dave Itzkoff's book about Network<a href="https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/0305-May-2003/Under-the-Influence-Sidney-Lumet">Directors' Guild of America post</a> about Sidney Lumet at a 2003 screening of Network<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/03/awards-insider-network-got-it-right-the-legacy-of-a-scorching-satire">Vanity Fair article on the legacy of Network </a>(which includes thoughts from Aaron Sorkin)

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 &lt;p&gt;This week, we dive deeper into the role of the fourth estate, as we discuss &lt;em&gt;Network&lt;/em&gt;, the Oscar-winning film that was meant to be a wild satire at the time it was released, but ended up uncannily predicting the future.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some additional reading material:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062246/madashell"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mad As Hell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Dave Itzkoff's book about &lt;em&gt;Network&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/0305-May-2003/Under-the-Influence-Sidney-Lumet"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Directors' Guild of America post&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; about Sidney Lumet at a 2003 screening of &lt;em&gt;Network&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/03/awards-insider-network-got-it-right-the-legacy-of-a-scorching-satire"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vanity Fair article on the legacy of Network &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(which includes thoughts from Aaron Sorkin)&lt;/p&gt;
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This week, we dive deeper into the role of the fourth estate, as we discuss Network, the Oscar-winning film that was meant to be a wild satire at the time it was released, but ended up uncannily predicting the future.

Some additional reading material:

<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062246/madashell">Mad As Hell</a>, Dave Itzkoff's book about Network

<a href="https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/0305-May-2003/Under-the-Influence-Sidney-Lumet">Directors' Guild of America post</a> about Sidney Lumet at a 2003 screening of Network

<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/03/awards-insider-network-got-it-right-the-legacy-of-a-scorching-satire">Vanity Fair article on the legacy of Network </a>(which includes thoughts from Aaron Sorkin)

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