1:02:03
Because this company is now
in the hands of CCA...
1:02:06
the Communication Corporation
of America.
1:02:08
There's a new chairman of the board,
a man called Frank Hackett...
1:02:12
sitting in Mr. Ruddy's office
on the 20th floor.
1:02:14
And when the 12th largest company
in the world...
1:02:18
controls the most awesome,
goddamn propaganda force...
1:02:21
in the whole godless world...
1:02:23
who knows what shit will be peddled
for truth on this network!
1:02:27
So you listen to me.
Listen to me!
1:02:30
Television is not the truth.
1:02:33
Television's
a goddamned amusement park!
1:02:35
Television is a circus, a carnival,
a traveling troupe of acrobats...
1:02:39
storytellers, dancers, singers,
jugglers, sideshow freaks...
1:02:43
lion tamers and football players.
1:02:46
We're in the boredom-killing business.
1:02:50
So if you want the truth,
go to God.
1:02:54
Go to your gurus.
1:02:56
Go to yourselves!
1:02:58
Because that's the only place
you're ever gonna find any real truth.
1:03:03
But, man, you're never gonna get
any truth from us.
1:03:08
We'll tell you anything you wanna hear.
We lie like hell.
1:03:10
We'll tell you that Kojak
always gets the killer...
1:03:13
and that nobody ever gets cancer
in Archie Bunker's house.
1:03:17
And no matter how much trouble
the hero is in, don't worry.
1:03:19
Look at your watch.
At the end of the hour he'll win!
1:03:21
We'll tell you any shit
you want to hear!
1:03:25
We deal in illusions.
None of it is true!
1:03:29
But you people sit there,
day after day, night after night.
1:03:32
You're all ages, colors, creeds.
We're all you know.
1:03:37
You're beginning to believe
the illusions we're spinning here.
1:03:39
You're beginning to think the tube is
reality and your own lives are unreal.
1:03:43
You do whatever the tube tells you!
1:03:45
You dress like the tube,
eat like the tube...
1:03:47
raise your children like the tube,
even think like the tube.
1:03:50
This is mass madness, you maniacs!
1:03:54
In God's name, you people
are the real thing!
1:03:57
We are the illusion!
1:03:59
So turn off your television sets.
Turn them off right now.