Product: Special Bulletin (TV-Movie) [VHS] (1983)
Rating: 5.0
A Prophetic Production
This has always been one of the films I have watched again every couple of years or so. It's a first class production. While obviously a period piece in terms of its news sets, clothes, etc. the subject matter is even more timely then when it was originally aired. We all learned why on 11 September 2001.Broadcast news in all of its glory(and flaws)is candidly portrayed by this cast. The seeds of entertainment driven news packaging are sprouting after the RBS network gets its bearings. This has become standard practice at today's network news operations during a crisis.I always knew that the fictional events here were possible. The events of 9/11 have brought a nightmare of mass murder like this into reality.