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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Have I mentioned how much I love the opening credits for The Newsroom?
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the strangeness of this life cannot be measured: i like the newsroom →
and i like aaron sorkin. who is a douchebag.
I agree with all of these things except the douchebag part. I’ve met Sorkin on more than one occasion and he is a totally decent person. Downright nice and kind, even. I get that he can come…
It is REALLY good to hear that someone has had a good experience with him. I love all his stuff. Really. All his stuff. And I think, if I met him, I would like him as a person too, even taking into account all the ridiculous articles and interviews. There are a lot of things we can learn from Newsroom, and obviously an idea of how journalists spin the news is one of them. And it seems like journalists don’t quite like Mr. Sorkin. Maybe it’s because he’s got them down to a tee.
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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.
Source: The New York Times
