Musings on life and culture
by Sarah
Art, Classical and Popular Music, The West Wing, Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, Bradley Whitford, Aaron Sorkin, David Strathairn, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton, Firefly, The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, Mary McDonnell, Robert Downey Jr., Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, sci-fi goodness, as well as general geekdom...and possibly some insanity.
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The thing that I kept tripping on was, I didn’t want to do fictional news. With “The West Wing,” we had a fictional president, a fictional Congress. For some reason, that just didn’t feel right [for “The Newsroom”], and I wanted all the news to be real. I was given a chance to hang out at a bunch of different cable news places. And one of them was back when Keith Olbermann was working at “Countdown” [on MSNBC]. I was there on, I think, Day 52 and Day 53 of the BP oil spill. I was hoping that I would sit there and some story for the pilot would occur to me. It wasn’t happening. And I was in the control room staring at an Internet stream of the Spill Cam. That’s when I got the idea to constantly set the show in the very recent past. And that opened up a lot of doors. It’s great when the audience knows more than the characters do. For instance, Episode 7 is the night we got Bin Laden. The audience is obviously way ahead of us through this whole thing, waiting for our characters to catch up.
— Aaron Sorkin on The Newsroom. (via tobyziegler)
Source: The New York Times
