By Angry Old American Copyright Angry Old American, April 29th, 2023. All Rights Reserved. In light of the recent departure of cable television’s #1 ranked rogue news reporter Tucker Carlson from Fox News, I watched the movie Network. This classic feature movie about television network news was released in 1976, received four Academy Awards, and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Network was voted among the ten greatest screenplays in cinematic history by the Writer's Guild of America, along with other accolades from the American Film Institute, and the Producer's Guild Hall of Fame. I recommend that this audience take the time to view for the first time, or re-watch this cinematic gem. Thus, I will minimize any spoiler’s in this article. The ouster of Carlson from Fox News is telling, framed by the insights of Network’s jaded message. According to the movie’s insights, television networks are whorehouses for the corporations that control them. The public trusts that they are told the truth by their “News,” but get nothing but lies sprinkled with circus entertainment; all of which operate as advertisements, or protect corporations from their many crimes. More than celebrity “hit” viewership, or even advertisement revenue, the message of conformity to the “corporate ecology” reigns supreme. Capitalist or Communist, the corporations of this world, and the governments that they control, all survive and thrive from the “ebb and flow” of commodities and manufactures exchanged by monopolies for dollars, pounds, rubles, yuan, pesos, rupees, and myriad other currencies. There is no other reality fit for the public to consider. We must all march to the tune of the Pied Piper of six corporations who control over 90% of all television and radio broadcasts, movie production studios, magazines, newspapers, along with publishers of novels, non-fiction, textbooks and even Bibles. Corporations control your internet search engines and social media, and have taken their megalomaniacal thirst for control to another level; through Artificial Intelligence (AI) they will control and police what you consume on a personal level. “AI has been taught to lie” were the words of Elon Musk during Carlson’s final week of broadcasting. Musk went on to say AI may pose a threat to the very survival of the Human Race. Within days of the broadcast, Musk testified before the US Congress to plead for a six month moratorium on the release of AI. His opponents are Google, Microsoft (Bing) and a group of other wealthy tech corporate developers of AI, and the entire military industrial complex that want the competitive edge and control that the new technology will give them. Watch the movie Network. You will not regret spending the time or expense. Perhaps you will follow the directions from the movie’s fictional rogue news reporter “Howard Beale,” to get up from your chair, walk to your window, open it, and shout… “I’m mad as Hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” Perhaps you will follow “Beale’s” next suggestion. You are alive and real; not that manufactured carnival freak-show reality flashing on the tube. Your life has meaning! So get up from your chair, walk over to your TV and turn it off. Turn it off and never turn it on again.