I told them. I said: Look, we're running a news department, not a circus.
3 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:31:21.738 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- A latter-day prophet denouncing the hypocrisies of our times.
- Hey, that sounds pretty good!
- Hackett. Chaney was there. The Legal Affairs guy. Oh, and that girl from Programming.
- Christensen? What's she got to do with this?
- I told them. I said: Look, we're running a news department, not a circus.
- And Howard Beale's not a bearded lady.
- And I think I'm speaking for Howard Beale and everybody else down there at news.
- Hey, hold it! That's my job you're turning down. I'd go nuts without some kind of work.
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