A 1976 satirical film by Sidney Lumet and written by Paddy Chayefsky about a TV news anchor who has a breakdown on air and becomes a prophet of mass rage, whose explosive popularity the network exploits.
Predicted the collapse of broadcast news ethics and the rise of entertainment-as-journalism with extraordinary prescience — a satire so accurate it became prophecy.
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