Network

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By the first week in July, the
"Howard Beale Show" was down 11 points.

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Hysteria swept through the network.

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He's a plague! He's smallpox!
He's typhoid!

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I don't want to follow his goddamn show!
I want out of the 8:00 spot.

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I've got enough troubles
without Howard Beale as a lead-in.

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You guys scheduled me up against
"Tony Orlando and Dawn"!

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NBC's got "Little House on the Prairie."
ABC's got "The Bionic Woman."

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You gotta do something
about Howard Beale!

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Get him off the air!
Get him off!

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Do something! Do anything!

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We're trying to find a replacement! I'm
going to look at audition footage now!

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And how when the sick heal!

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Man, I tell you I saw it!

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It was heavy, baby.

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I saw the earth quake...

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and I saw the moon became like blood.

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And every mountain and island
was moved from its place.

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No, no, damn it! If we wanted hell-fire,
we'd get Billy Graham!

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We don't want faith healers, evangelists
or Oberammergau passion players!

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What about that terrific new messiah
ABC was to sign for our competition?

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That's him.

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That's him?

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Jesus. Turn him off!

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I've got three more,
but you've already seen the best ones.

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I've got a guru from Spokane...

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and two more hell-fires
who see visions of the Virgin Mary.

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We're not gonna find a replacement
for Beale. Let's stop kidding ourselves.

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Fully-fledged messiahs
don't come in bunches.

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We either go with Howard Beale
or we go without him.

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My reports say we'll do better
without him.

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It would be disaster to let
this situation go on another week.

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By then he'll be down 16 points...

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and the trend irreversible,
if it isn't already.

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I think we should fire Howard.

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Arthur Jensen has taken
a strong personal interest...

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in the "Howard Beale Show."