I said, "You know, this is news, this is important. This is stuff people need to know"....
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Steve Wilson:
I said, "You know, this is news, this is important. This is stuff people need to know". And I'll never forget, he didn't pause a beat and he said, "We just paid $3 billion for these television stations. We'll tell you what The news is. The news is what we say it is". I said, "I'm not doing that", and he said, "Well, if you refuse to present this story the way think it should be presented you'll be fired for insubordination". I said, "I will go to the Federal Communications Commission and I will report that I was fired from my job by you, the licensee of these public airwaves because I refused to lie to people on the air"
I said, "You know, this is news, this is important. This is stuff people need to know". And I'll never forget, he didn't pause a beat and he said, "We just paid $3 billion for these television stations. We'll tell you what The news is. The news is what we say it is". I said, "I'm not doing that", and he said, "Well, if you refuse to present this story the way think it should be presented you'll be fired for insubordination". I said, "I will go to the Federal Communications Commission and I will report that I was fired from my job by you, the licensee of these public airwaves because I refused to lie to people on the air"
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I said you know this is news
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this is important
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This is stuff people wanted to know
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And I ll never forget he didn t pause a beat
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and he said
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we just paid three billion dollars
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for these television stations
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Well tell you what the news is
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The news is what we say it is
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I said I m not doing that
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and and he said
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Well he said if you refuse to present this story
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the way we think it should be presented
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you ll be fired for insubordination
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I said I will go to the Federal Communications Commissions
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and I will report that I was fired from my job by you
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Movie Summary
Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
