Story & Aftermath

Evalyn 2022-03-21 09:01:41

Television is a business show, and it will do whatever it takes to grab an audience. Making money is king.
Howard Bill, who was almost fired for his low ratings and stayed because he said he was going to shoot himself on the show with the potential to cause a ratings spike, ignited and ignited the show as a symbol of justice and morality The anger of the Americans helped them vent, and the
ratings for the programs that filled the blanks were extremely high, and Howard became a celebrity. But soon, the novelty of people passed, and he was hired by the company to clean up the low ratings. Get out if you can't create a hot spot, and you can't escape the sad fate of being a TV person.
Anyway, I don't like this industry very much, it's very cold and realistic. Although it may seem glamorous to some.

The last shot is very meaningful. Two of the four VTBs show the scene of Howard Bill being shot, and the other two show the shot of the waves hitting the rock and the advertisement starring two children. One Howard Bill goes, a new one will come, be popular, and then fall into disuse. But TV will continue to air, no matter who does it. As the Bible says, "A generation has come and a generation has gone, and the sun still rises."

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Extended Reading

Network quotes

  • Howard Beale: We'll tell you anything you want to hear, we lie like hell.

  • Howard Beale: [arms outstretched to the heavens] Edward George Ruddy died today! Edward George Ruddy was the Chairman of the Board of the Union Broadcasting Systems, and he died at eleven o'clock this morning of a heart condition, and woe is us! We're in a lot of trouble!

    Howard Beale: [calmly strolling toward the audience] So. A rich little man with white hair died. What has that got to do with the price of rice, right? And *why* is that woe to us? Because you people, and sixty-two million other Americans, are listening to me right now. Because less than three percent of you people read books! Because less than fifteen percent of you read newspapers! Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube! This tube is the Gospel, the ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers... This tube is the most awesome God-damned force in the whole godless world, and woe is us if it ever falls in to the hands of the wrong people, and that's why woe is us that Edward George Ruddy died. Because this company is now in the hands of CCA - the Communication Corporation of America. There's a new Chairman of the Board, a man called Frank Hackett, sitting in Mr. Ruddy's office on the twentieth floor. And when the twelfth largest company in the world controls the most awesome God-damned propoganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network?

    Howard Beale: [ascending the stage] So, you listen to me. Listen to me: Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business! So if you want the truth... Go to God! Go to your gurus! Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever going to find any real truth.