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<p><i></i></p></div></div></div></div></header></div></body></html>";s:4:"text";s:27937:"The liberal answers, “Diversity and opportunity.” The conservative answers, “Freedom and freedom. Is it unreasonable to assume that he’s talking about the era of Cronkite and Murrow? Inevitably people will argue generational politics instead of the question of America's "greatness" and Aaron's Sorkin's insistence that American "used to be" great and now isn't. Canada has freedom. But I … Smells like a bunch of Rose Colored Glasses Conservative Bullshit to me. Contact: midpointblog@gmail.com. We passed laws, struck down laws, for moral reasons. She attended a question and answer session at Northwestern University to speak to Will McAvoy, Lewis and Sharon. “It’s not the greatest country in the world, professor, that’s my answer!”. Japan has freedom. Airs Sundays at 10pm on HBO. Surely you aren’t going to say something stupid. While waiting in line for the event, she ran into MacKenzie McHale, explaining that she wanted to ask the three what makes America the greatest country on Earth. I could barely tolerate anything before this part of the scene, but this is the moment where I truly started to turn against the show. The pundits, the millennials, the debate, this isn’t how it’s supposed to be, and Sorkin and director Greg Mottola, another great filmmaker led astray by The Newsroom, go almost hilariously out of their way to make sure you know that everything happening on-screen is utterly revolting. It's some weird reverse ad populum argument that doesn't make any sense. Powered by Squarespace. Period. The moderator tries to change the subject again, but Will takes control and the rant truly begins. No, that's bullshit. The House &amp; Senate are using the budget reconciliation process to pass a pandemic relief bill, thus allowing any bill to... Sign and send the petition: Congress must expel Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for being a direct threat. It’s hard not to be sympathetic. Just how long do we get to coast on those five years of fighting the Nazi's and Imperial Japan, anyway? If you want to go assigning blame, the state of America in 2012 is his generation's fault (whether he's the Me Generation Baby Boomer, like actor Jeff Daniels, or GenX, not the fault of this 20 year old's GenY. Come on, Aaron Sorkin, you do know the educated 20-something person is a fairly big part of your likely audience here, right? I mean, two whole years it's been! “If liberals are so fucking smart then how come they lose so goddamn always?” Will asks. The inner cities became war zones and somewhere in a deep dark corner, Karl Rove and Lee Atwater were sharpening their fangs and feasting on virgin blood. I have on my computer a big ol’ list of article ideas, and I’m running out of softballs. Now Playing: Star-Studded Premiere for "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" This is the seventh article I’ve written for this blog now, not including the first, and if there’s something I’ve learned it’s that it can be hard to motivate yourself. The millennials gasp. Transcript for Trailer: 'The Newsroom' This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate. Great movie moments don't always have to be great visual spectacle. Yeah, it's a nice rant, but he's also profoundly full of shit. So when Will says that “We fought for moral reasons. Worse than my own Generation Jones? The Newsroom is an American political drama television series created and principally written by Aaron Sorkin that premiered on HBO on June 24, 2012, and concluded on December 14, 2014, consisting of 25 episodes over three seasons, with 52 to 73 minute long episodes.. It’s a point expressed in a needlessly smug manner, but it’s a fair point nonetheless. I could say all that, and honestly, I don’t see any reason not to. The series chronicles behind-the-scenes events at the fictional Atlantis Cable News (ACN) channel. Then he turns back to poor Jenny.  1 Season 1. The pilot, which starts with the famous rant, completely shifts gears once the oil spill starts and we watch the team hunt down the story. Will sits in between a man and a woman, a conservative and a liberal respectively. When? As an audience member, I want to feel my own emotions. He asserts that the 20 year old college student is a member of the "worst period generation period ever period" without bothering to even say why that's his opinion. Not so damn much, now that I stop and actually pay attention to what he's saying, what he's asserting so forcefully. I’m just not sure what era Will is specifically talking about. Sorkin then goes on to dissect a scene from "The Newsroom," in which news anchor Will McAvoy (played by Jeff Daniels) loses it in typically eloquent Sorkin style while sitting on a … And a snarky comment about "...you, sorority girl. My pampered generation doesn't have such shining pillars of the community as Shirley Phelps-Roper or Oliver North. Women be crazy, says every scene of Newsroom. If you are into journalism, investigations, and real world events, this is the show for you! He goes after the National Endowment of the Arts, not because there’s anything wrong with it, but because it costs political capital and dumb conservative pundits can attack liberals at any moment with this apparent frivolous government spending. Will begins the rant by attacking liberals. “We reached for the stars,” to quote one of the more prevalent Sorkinisms. I am aware of the obvious hypocrisy. With Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill. The opening scene to the Pilot Episode of The Newsroom. Create. Whether you loved or hated 'The Newsroom,' the scene in the pilot was one that everyone was talking about -- and now, here we are again. And then turns around and does the exact same thing, himself. The U.K. France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom. 2. Surely you are not going to do this. Don’t get me wrong, I find a lot of the behavior of my fellow millennials to be as annoying and unproductive as everyone else. Rose Colored Glasses Conservative Bullshit, Ways to get involved in the 2020 Election. I remember watching the pilot air on HBO. Human beings have the uncanny ability to identify with anything so long as we have something to relate to. And the WAY that he's full of crap insured that it was no surprise at all to me when later the character announces he's a Republican. The Newsroom (TV Series 2012–2014) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Because the GenY/Millennial Generation is the ONLY reliably Democratic voting age group? Looking at you, Moneyball. 1. "Sorority girl"? The Newsroom starring Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer is an excellent, well balanced serious drama written by the great Aaron Sorkin. I also use way too many “to be” verbs and the universe is imperfect. That doesn’t excuse treating your viewers like they’re stupid. He mocks the college student who is obviously interested enough in politics and media and current events to attend a panel discussion on those subjects, interested enough to ask a question of the guests. Because if there IS a good reason for your assertion you sure as hell didn't even TRY to make it clear here. Two hundred and seven sovereign states in the world, like, a hundred and eighty of them have freedom.” It’s a fair point. But that's missing the bigger issue. Of course we should all aspire for something better for ourselves in all the arenas of our lives. Sometimes, the show delivered on that promise. There are two primary assertions Jeff Daniel's character, news anchor Will McAvoy, makes in his rant. I just don’t agree with his premise or the nature in which this scene is presented, and I can’t help but notice that all this seems a little familiar to me. But hey, that’s just me. Will tries to deflect, but the moderator won’t have it. At the end of the day, Sorkin is an idealist, and at his best he can be as inspiring as the men he seems to revere. Yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paycheck, but he gets to hit you with it anytime he wants. A fact which will very likely change, as they are already drifting away from the Democrats, thanks in large part to the way they were deceived in 2008 and disappointed in the first two years of the Obama Presidency. That America used to be "great", though it no longer is. You know, the same shite conservatives shovel daily. In the opening scene of the television show “The Newsroom”, Will McAvoy the news anchor, is in an auditorium participating in a panel of politically knowledgeable people. Now? While Joel Lewenstein's answer gets to the heart of it (that the information is, essentially, accurate), it's important to remember that the show is set in the recent past (2 years ago) and so the numbers are bound to have changed a bit. Directed by Joshua Marston. 2. Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?” Oh Jenny! Will then connects this to a larger issue: People don’t like liberals because they lose. It’s not the greatest country in the world. It feels good being on Will’s level. The scene in question opens with Will sitting at a college panel. Daily Kos moves in solidarity with the Black community. Look at how everyone in this scene is behaving, as if the notion that America isn’t the greatest country in the world never occurred to any them. Release date: 24 June 2012, HBO Will It's not the greatest country in the world, professor, that's my answer. All of which is a very long way of saying that this article, about the opening scene of The Newsroom, is petty by design. #14. Looking Back at "The Newsroom" Episode 1 opening scene. What I’m talking about here is the heavy-handed nature of the set-up to the rant that’s about to happen. The Newsroom (2012–2014) is an American drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin, airing on HBO, that chronicles the behind-the-scenes events at the fictional Atlantis Cable News (ACN) channel. We weren't the generation that literally drank the Kool-Aid, and I won't be able to sit my kids down in my suburban home and say, "Kids, after Sharon Tate and Altamont, we realized our revolution or whatever was bullshit, so we all looked inward, and we realized we were all nothing but a bunch of selfish pricks. The Newsroom – What Makes America The Greatest Country In The World. An audience member asks Will what party he belongs to, and we learn that Will has never publicly stated his political affiliation. “It’s not.”, He tries more deflection. “Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world? It shifts back to neutral once we reach the end of the pilot, but there was promise. I’ve seen most of Sorkin’s work. When we were waging genocide on the native Americans so we could steal their land? became old enough to vote were what brought American greatness down. Just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day...". Ideally, I would have rewatched the pilot rather than relying on Youtube clips so that I could offer you some narrative insights or something else that sounds good like that. When we wouldn't allow women to vote? Television’s finest minds have their heads up their asses—or so Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom (HBO, Sundays at 10 p.m. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people” I don’t know what the fuck he’s talking about. “The Newsroom” came to a close Sunday on HBO, and even after three seasons, this Aaron Sorkin series is still puzzling. The rest of the rant is nostalgia. I think The Social Network is one of the best movies of the decade so far, I loved Steve Jobs, I think The West Wing, while flawed, was one of the greatest shows of all time during Sorkin’s tenure. Since it's "The Newsroom's" last season I went back and watched the opening episode's fairly famous rant. Yeah, it accounts I'd even have agreed it was "the most honest three minutes in television history", then. I could say that god forbid any of us millennials can’t live up to the great heights of tripping balls at Woodstock or electing Bush. The official website for The Newsroom on HBO, featuring full episodes online, interviews, schedule information and episode guides. Created by Aaron Sorkin. When we bought and sold human beings as property? When we wouldn't allow blacks to vote just because they were black? Reagan? I do believe Sorkin’s intentions were good when it came to The Newsroom. He wants a “human moment” from a Will. He sees Mac some more. It’s one thing to write about a movie you’ve seen a trillion times. “Can you say in one sentence or less— (Audience giggles)… You know what I mean. Ideally, I would have rewatched the pilot rather than relying on Youtube clips so that I could offer you some narrative insights or something else that sounds good like that. I also think that the context of every election differs, and there isn’t any one blanket reason why one party loses to another. It’s something entirely different, however, to say, “Hey maybe we should start that big replay of Far Cry 3 so you can write that article about the handling of mental degradation and violence in video games!” (Article coming soon.) For some reason I now see it completely differently than I did the first time around. It was Kennedy who pushed through the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act which did away with the gross, racist, preferential treatment northern Europeans received in immigration requests. And watching that opening scene from The Newsroom where our hero is hurling perspicacious abuse at this undeserving 20-year-old, I couldn't help but see parallels. (BTW, if you ever wondered what it was that Teddy Kennedy did to earn the eternal enmity of the conservatives, look at that link. 1. He clearly looks up to the journalists of old. The more you slow down the Sorkin of your Sorkin script, the worse off you are. So why is she a member of the "worst period generation period ever period"? I am at peace with all of this. With Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill. In the beginning of season two of The West Wing, after President Bartlett and Josh Lyman survive an assassination attempt by a group of white supremacists, the senior staff members find themselves on the verge of a complete nervous breakdown. A newsroom undergoes some changes in its workings and morals as a new team is brought in, bringing unexpected results for its existing news anchor. “And with a straight face, you're gonna sit there and tell students that America is so star-spangled awesome that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom? Our Constitution was a "Great Experiment", enshrining the ideal that government derives its authority by the consent of the governed. He starts seeing flashes of Emily Mortimer. When? McAvoy who is the protagonist of the show, he avoids answering one of the questions asked by a student “Why is America the greatest country in the world?”. I think we’re supposed to be rooting against the moderator at this point, but all I’m doing is rolling my eyes because the moderator seems to think that humanity and the ability to spew sound bites are the same thing. A good answer, or at least a better answer than “Freedom and freedom.” But the moderator wants more. Look closely enough and you might even see some strings. Even at his worst, everything he writes is just so damn watchable due to the sheer inertia of his dialogue and the way he structures his scenes. Will then turns to the conservative pundit and attacks his jingoism. Apologies for the blurriness of the screenshots. We lead the world in only three categories: Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies. Surely. That in the audience’s twenty or so years, they never questioned political norms or the society they live in. NO nation which has legal chattel slavery of human beings can make any claim to greatness. Obviously the two years she and her peers have been old enough to vote had been the worst ever. More importantly, in my opinion, he strongly asserts that we, America, "used to be" a great nation. (I may have even rewatched the whole show.) Even worse than, say... whatever generation it was that took up arms in rebellion against the federal government to preserve legal CHATTEL SLAVERY? Somewhere in a spooky swamp, Scooby-Doo yells, “Ruh-roh!” The moderator finds this idea so shocking he has to ask again. Because if so, we’re also talking about the era of racial segregation and Vietnam. The Newsroom is a new HBO series about the staff of a 24-hour news channel called Atlantis Cable News (ACN). So, again, when? Make social videos in an instant: use custom templates to tell the right story for your business. None of this seems the eensy-weensiest contrived at all. Will then turns back to Jenny and says, “Now none of this is the fault of a twenty year old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst, period, generation, period, ever, period.”, I could say that a baby boomer accusing any other generation of being “the worst ever” is almost exceedingly laughable. I am aware of the fact that I am saying Will McAcoy is petty in the most petty way possible. Since it's "The Newsroom's" last season I went back and watched the opening episode's fairly famous rant. Speaking as somebody who leans pretty far to the left, I don’t think the ability to campaign is the same thing as the ability to govern or effectively lead. When? Directed by Greg Mottola. For some reason I now see it completely differently than I … This man’s about to explode, and the filmmaking tell us with the subtly of a bull whose family was murdered by the owner of the china shop he’s currently destroying. This content was created by a Daily Kos Community member. No. [to the liberal panelist] Sharon, the NEA is a loser. Sometimes, it feels like the cards are stacked against you, and you’re going to need to debase yourself a little to get motivated. From left, Aaron Sorkin, creator and executive producer, and actors Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterston, Olivia Munn and Dev Patel at the Season 2 premiere of “The Newsroom” in Hollywood on July 10, 2013. The audio dampens. You don't need to force it so much. The first time around I was cheering like many others have. 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