5 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:04:44.072 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Because less than 15 percent of you read newspapers.
- Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. Right now, there is a whole and entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube.
- This tube is the Gospel. The ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers!
- This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world! And woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong people.
- And that's why woe is us that Edward George Ruddy died.
- Because this company is now in the hands of CCA, the Communication Corporation of America.
- There's a new chairman of the board. A man called Frank Hackett sitting in Mr. Ruddy's office on the 20th floor!
- And when the 12th largest company in the world controls the most awesome, goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network.
- So you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television's a goddamned amusement park.
- Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.
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