I like Network a whole lot

Network was a good movie. In the beginnin of it, Howard Beele gets fired from his job as an on air anchor, so he threatens to blow his brains out on National TV, and then more people start watching his show because of that, and then the execs tell him to do what he wants and he becomes a prophet, and they're exploiting him, and they're making a reality TV show about a bunch of Far-Left Militias. And this was 1976. And it's good

Go watch it.