and i think it was a protest about the medium that lumet and chayevsky loved had in a sense betrayed them. i want all of you to get up out of your chairs. i want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, stick your head out and yell, "i'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take this anymore!" i want you to get up right now, get up and go to your windows, open them, stick your head out -- (sidney lumet) chayevsky, who was a magnificent writer, wasn't just talking about television as television; he was talking about the whole mechanization of society. they're yellin' in baton rouge. get up! get up! how about this! we struck the motherlode! (todd gitlin) the peter finch character in "network" understands tv's not just an instrument of political power, it's not just an instrument for selling; it's an instrument by which people's view of the world is consolidated. television is much deeper in the american soil, in the american sensibility than was thought before, in ways that are maybe much too complicated to understand. i'm mad as hell! i'm not gonna take it anymore! (todd git