"The Most Honest Three Minutes In Television History"

[mysteryowl]

This is from 2013, part of a movie, and relevant.

[Scrivener7]

1. It was a series. "The Newsroom." It was good.

I remember watching that scene, which is I think the first in the series and thinking, "I will watch every second of this thing for every episode no matter how long it runs!"

[tblue37]

7. And it was written by Aaron Sorkin.

[mysteryowl]

11. Ohhhh, that explains it.

[BlueTsunami2018]

2. That's from The Newsroom.

An HBO series. Was quite good.

[FakeNoose]

3. Wow!

Jeff Daniels is always awesome

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Oh no, is this making the rounds again?

[Scrivener7]

10. The more often, the better.

[Rebl2]

14. YEP!

[Girard442]

5. When you pick whiney little shits for your leaders...

...greatness ain't happenin'.

[PlanetBev]

6. OMG

I’ve never seen that clip before. I almost cried. It goes along side by side with the George Carlin rant. “There’s a reason for this, there a reason why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

[Mr.Bill]

8. This is a scene from a fictional TV show.

I once read a breakdown of how most of the stats he quoted were not correct.

Great scene, though.

[hippywife]

19. Source? nt

[Mr.Bill]

20. I don't remember,

it was a long time ago. But like I said it was a fictional TV show.

It was meant to entertain, not educate. It was not a documentary.

[hippywife]

21. I know what it was.

But I've also never known Sorkin to include intentional fallacies in his scripts, either.

[Liberal In Texas]

9. If it were non-fiction the RW panelists would be shouting him down with RW talking points.

And changing the subject over and over.

[Hoyt]

12. That part was very good, but from there the show didn't live up to the rant.

[boston bean]

16. I thought it was great when I watched it back then. I should re-watch.

[Hoyt]

17. Oh, I enjoyed the show.

[LuvLoogie]

13. This scene is a bit contrived for me.

A lot of popular west wings clips feel like that as well.

I suppose this one is just as contrived, but to me is much better in inspiring one to oppose the inevitable cynicism.

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[ItsjustMe]

15. The Newsroom "The Greater Fool" - Sorority Girl

[hippywife]

18. I enjoyed The Newsroom

almost as much as The West Wing. So much that, since I don't watch TV anymore and haven't in a very long time, I checked the DVDs out of the library a few years ago or so, and we had a weekend binge watch. Sorkin does some amazing, extremely intelligent writing. There's been too little of that for too long.