(..) Hackett is clearly forcing a confrontation. That would account for his behavior at the stockholders' meeting. However, l think he's making a serious mistake with this Beale business. l suspect CCA will be upset... at Hackett's presumptuousness. Certainly Mr. Jensen will. So l'm going to let Hackett (..)

(..) ln his time, Howard Beale had been a mandarin of television... the grand old man of news... with a HUT rating of and a audience share. ln , however, his fortunes began to decline. He fell to a share. The following year, his wife died, and he was left a childless widower... with an rating (..)