4 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:36:21.062 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Hell, you're not serious, are you?
- Oh, I'm serious.
- The fact is I could make your Beale Show the highest-rated news show in television, if you'd let me have a crack at it.
- What do you mean, have a crack at it?
- I'd like to program it for you. Develop it.
- I wouldn't interfere with the actual news itself, but TV is showbiz, Max. And even the news has to have a little showmanship.
- My God, you are serious.
- Oh. I watched your 6:00 news today. It's straight tabloid.
- You had a minute and a half of that lady riding a bike naked in Central Park.
- On the other hand, you had less than a minute of hard national and international news. It was all sex, scandal, brutal crimes, sports, children with incurable diseases and lost puppies.
- So I don't think I'll listen to any protestations of high standards of journalism when you're right down on the street soliciting audiences like the rest of us.
- Look, all I'm saying is, if you're gonna hustle, at least do it right.
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