-Dave Itzkoff takes us on an extraordinary journey, and in the process reveals Chayefsky's prognosis for TV, a prognosis we've chosen to ignore even as it's come true before our eyes.---Forbes

-I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore -

Those words, spoken by an unhinged anchorman named Howard Beale, -the mad prophet of the airwaves, - took America by storm in 1976, when Network became a sensation. With a superb cast (including Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, and Robert Duvall) directed by Sidney Lumet, the film won...