Stand by All Networks (1942)

John Beal: Ben Fallon

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• Ben Fallon : This is Ben Fallon, your announcer. If we allow saboteurs to go unchallenged, then we must pay the price for complacency. There are enemies among us, and they must be found if we are to survive. Remember, enemy agents broke down the morale in Norway, Denmark, Belgium and France. Don't allow them to do that here. They're trying to soften us up so there won't be any fight left in us.

• Ben Fallon : Why am I off the air?

  Grant Neeley : I cut you off the air, Fallon. You're supposed to report news, not hunches. You're paid to tell what you know. Facts. Not something you cook up out of that lame brain of yours.

  Ben Fallon : News isn't news when it's history, Mr. Neely.

  Grant Neeley : Ben, I don't expect you to make history. But if you give out any more of these lamebrained deductions of yours, you're through.

  Ben Fallon : Just as you say, Mr. Neely.

• Ben Fallon : So, ladies and gentlemen, if you want the bold, bald facts, if you want the truth till it hurts, if you want the news honestly related in the old American tradition of free speech, say so. Phone in, write in, wire in. Every bit helps. That's all for now, folks. Remember, this is Ben Fallon, with tomorrow's news today.