I watched the film "Network" (on DVD) last night for the first time again since it was released in 1976, I think.

The film holds up very well, is eerily prescient, and is definitely up there in the film classic category. But as I was looking through the new DVD section at my neighborhood video store, I also noticed how many films based on Sinclair Lewis works were now out on DVD!

I do agree with you Nicole, that there are plenty of writers who include politics in their work. But I still wonder why there is so much quality social criticism missing from our public lives.

Has there been another "Network" in film or book form, since 1976? Considering the manipulative and propagandist power of television on so many aspects of our lives, and how much it skews our view of the world, it is still disturbing to me that so little social criticism for a mass market audience (such as through a book or film) exists.