Television

June, 1977

Could "Network" really happen? Paddy Chayefsky's controversial screenplay for one of the year's smash-hit films has been attacked as a wild exaggeration of the facts of life, corporate-TV style. But one chapter of its gospel, enunciated by the rapacious programing executive played by Faye Dunaway, is that the secret of high ratings is hitting the audience in the gut. Get them to hate, love, fear. In other words, arouse their emotional responses. Is "Network's" excess--firing...