The Loudest Voice (TV Mini Series)

2001 (2019)

Barry Watson: Lachlan Murdoch

Quotes 

• Roger Ailes : [after a letter allegedly containing anthrax is delivered to the building]  We have a situation.

  Lachlan Murdoch : Yeah, I know. It's being handled.

  Roger Ailes : Handled? I just walked in here. Nobody here knew anything about it.

  Lachlan Murdoch : Roger, the letter was received at the Post, a dozen floors away, and it's been sealed. The authorities have been notified.

  Roger Ailes : Is that right? You leaving my people down here, unprotected and uninformed in an emergency?

  Lachlan Murdoch : We have protocols to follow. You need to calm down.

  Roger Ailes : Calm down? You're telling me to calm down?

  Lachlan Murdoch : We have the situation well in hand.

  Roger Ailes : We? We don't have anything. *I* run Fox News, not you.

  Lachlan Murdoch : I am the deputy chief operating officer of News Corp. News Corp owns Fox News.

  Roger Ailes : I don't care if you think you're Jesus Christ Almighty. I will do

  [pounding the tabletop] 

  Roger Ailes : anything necessary to protect my people.

  Lachlan Murdoch : We all care about the safety of our people, Roger. Yelling about it doesn't make you a better manager.

  Roger Ailes : This is my operation, my people, and my responsibility. One thing I don't need is some schoolboy coming down here telling me how to do my job.