One of of your memes was a lyric in this song, from a whole album about television.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IZcEQUq3Gyw&pp=ygUOdHViZXMgdGVsZWNpZGU%3D
That song’s amazing. That album is 1972 and the movie Network was 1976. Guess The Tubes were mad as hell before Howard Beale was.