The movie "Network" represents the bureaucratic side of television. It has instances that suggest its existence as a kind of art medium but it mostly focuses on the financial and executive aspects of the television industry. Within the context of Network the only thing that matters to the television industry is ratings and money. While the livelihood of the workers within the film depends on the viewers, whose audience creates the ratings the executives cling to so fiercely, they mock the fact that an entire generation has grown up on television and that they know little else. This dramatized, fictionalized behind-the-scenes look at how a television network runs makes these claims about the business of television and its hypocritical and self-serving qualities. Within the film, the network discussed does extreme and illegal things to help ratings in order to save their failing network. This presents the network system in a terrible light whether the actual system of television does similar practices or not. The network’s executives feel the need to join forces with questionable people in order to have their ratings aided. They make deals with bank robbers, because they think people will want to see their story, thereby vindicating their illegal activities and glorifying the illegal. They use Howard Beale and his apparent mental breakdown to gain ratings but as soon as he starts being detrimental they kill him.  Even though these are extreme events, this seems realistic in that this is similar to the situation presented in Ant Farm’s “Media Burn." In this video the people sent invitations to the news stations in order to get them to come and the news stations came even though they didn't know what they would find. These real television companies did not want to risk not having a ratings maker or to be behind other stations with the story and so they went to find a potentially time and money wasting event, and then they air