:27:02
- But popular reaction...
- We don't know the popular reaction.
:27:04
- That's what we have to find out.
- The New York Times...
:27:07
The New York Times doesn't advertise
on our network.
:27:12
All I know is, this violates
every canon of respectable broadcasting.
:27:16
We're not a respectable network.
We're a whorehouse network.
:27:20
We have to take whatever we can get.
:27:23
I don't want any part of it.
:27:25
I don't fancy myself
the president of a whorehouse.
:27:27
That's commendable of you, Nelson.
Now sit down.
:27:31
Your indignation
has been duly recorded.
:27:33
You can always resign tomorrow.
:27:37
What in substance are we proposing?
:27:41
Merely to add editorial comment
to our network news show.
:27:45
Brinkley, Sevareid, Reasoner
all have their comments.
:27:49
Now Howard Beale will have his.
:27:51
I think we ought to give it a shot,
see what happens tonight. Telephone.
:27:55
I don't want to be the messenger
who has to tell Schumacher about this.
:27:58
He doesn't work at this network anymore.
Mr. Ruddy fired him last night.
:28:02
Bob McDonough is running
the News Division now.
:28:06
Bob McDonough in News, please.
:28:09
I don't know.
:28:11
I may teach or write a book...
:28:14
whatever the hell one does when one
approaches the autumn of one's years.
:28:20
My God! Is that me?
:28:23
Was I ever that young?
:28:26
No, Howard brought in a picture
of Ed Murrow...
:28:28
and the CBS gang
when we were there.
:28:30
You wouldn't believe it!
:28:32
Walter Cronkite, Harry Reasoner...
:28:34
Hollenbeck, Bob Trout.
:28:36
Is that you?
:28:39
Yeah. Okay, Dick,
we'll be in touch.
:28:43
Remember this kid you sent to interview
Cleveland Amory on vivisection?
:28:50
What's so funny?
:28:55
I jump out of bed in my pajamas,
I grab my raincoat, I run downstairs.
:28:59
I run out to the street
and hail a cab.