Editing Network (1976 film) (section)

=== Legacy ===
In 2000, Roger Ebert added the film to his [[Great Movies]] list and said it was "like prophecy. When Chayefsky created Howard Beale, could he have imagined [[Jerry Springer]], [[Howard Stern]], and the [[World Wrestling Federation]]?"; he credits Lumet and Chayefsky for knowing "just when to pull out all the stops."<ref>[https://www.rogerebert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20001029/REVIEWS08/10290301/1023 Review of ''Network''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130204121536/http://www.rogerebert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20001029%2FREVIEWS08%2F10290301%2F1023 |date=February 4, 2013 }} by Roger Ebert from October 2000</ref> Screenwriter [[Aaron Sorkin]] wrote in 2011 that "no predictor of the future—not even [[Orwell]]—has ever been as right as Chayefsky was when he wrote ''Network''."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/movies/paddy-chayefskys-notes-for-network-film.html |title=Notes of a Screenwriter, Mad as Hell |last=Itzkoff |first=Dave |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 19, 2011 |access-date=January 13, 2017 |archive-date=January 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116180428/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/movies/paddy-chayefskys-notes-for-network-film.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The film ranks at number 100 in ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Films of All Time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.empireonline.com/500/80.asp |title=The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time |work=Empire |publisher=Bauer Media Group|access-date=August 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814081404/http://www.empireonline.com/500/1.asp|archive-date=August 14, 2011|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>