Everyone was yelling this in post-Watergate America.  It was therapeutic.  It was also a great moment in the film.  Network is definately worth seeing today to find out how prophetic it was in its view of the future of television and American culture.

  Has certainly become something of a legend in film history and popular culture.

One of my favorite lines ever is in a pretty obscure movie called "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" with Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle. I think the guy who said it was a late character actor named Richard Jordan. A couple of mindless hippies want to buy some guns to pull off a not particularly well planned heist, and Jordan's character, a low level hood, says: " This life's hard man, but it's HARDER  if you're stupid!" You have to see the film...stlll, it's really simple but observant...

this is getting to be MY motto. especially every year I get older. I remember the scene in Network when the newscaster is sort of going off the deep end and he instructs the viewers to start yelling this quote. that was good scene. actually one of the few things i remember about the movie.