You gotta get the Ecumenicals to bring in that film footage for us. The network can't deal with them directly. They are, after all, wanted criminals.

7 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:59:53.574 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- What kind of show did you have in mind?

- I'm interested in doing a weekly dramatic series based on the Ecumenical Liberation Army. And I'll tell you right now what the first show has to be: a two hour special on Mary Ann Gifford.

- Let me tell you what I want. I want a lot more film like the bank rip-off the Ecumenical sent in.

- The way I see the series is each week we open with an authentic act of political terrorism taken on the spot, and in the actual moment. Then we go to the drama behind the opening film footage.

- That's your job, Ms. Hobbs.

- You gotta get the Ecumenicals to bring in that film footage for us. The network can't deal with them directly. They are, after all, wanted criminals.

- The Ecumenical Liberation Army is an ultra-left sect creating political confusion with wildcat violence and pseudo-insurrectionary acts which the Communist Party does not endorse.

- The American masses are not yet ready for open revolt.

- We would not want to produce a television show celebrating historically deviational terrorism.

- Ms. Hobbs, I'm offering an hour of prime-time television every week into which you can stick whatever propaganda you want.

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