:20:02
- There is nothing more to say.
- I have something to say.
:20:06
I want to know why that debasement
of the News Division...
:20:09
announced at the meeting this afternoon
was kept secret from me?
:20:14
You and I go back 20 years.
:20:16
I took this job
with your personal assurance...
:20:19
that you'd back my autonomy
against any encroachment.
:20:22
But ever since CCA acquired control
of UBS Systems ten months ago...
:20:27
Hackett's been taking over everything.
:20:29
Who is running this network?
You or some conglomerate called CCA?
:20:33
You're president
of the Systems Group.
:20:36
Hackett's nothing
but a hatchet man for CCA.
:20:40
Nelson here,
president of the network...
:20:42
and he hasn't a damned thing to say
about anything anymore.
:20:45
I told you
at the stockholders' meeting...
:20:48
that we would discuss all that
at our regular meeting tomorrow morning.
:20:51
If you had been patient,
I would have explained...
:20:54
that I, too, thought
Frank Hackett precipitate...
:20:56
and that the reorganization of the
News Division would not be executed...
:20:59
until everyone,
specifically you, Max...
:21:01
had been consulted and satisfied.
:21:05
Instead, you sulked off
like a child...
:21:07
and engaged this network
in a shocking and disgraceful episode.
:21:10
Your position
is no longer tenable...
:21:12
regardless of how management
is restructured.
:21:16
I will expect your resignation
at 10:00 tomorrow morning.
:21:19
We will coordinate our statements
to the least detriment of everyone.
:21:24
Bob McDonough will take over the News
Division until we sort all this out.
:21:29
I'd like to see Mr. Beale now.
:21:32
They're looking for him.
They don't know where he is.
:21:36
Well, every day, five days a week
for 15 years...
:21:40
I've been sitting behind that desk,
the dispassionate pundit...
:21:43
reporting with seemly detachment...
:21:46
the daily parade of lunacies
that constitute the news.
:21:50
Just once...
:21:51
I wanted to say
what I really felt.
:21:53
Knock it off.
:21:55
It was, after all, my last one.