Aaron Sorkin apologizes for HBO's 'The Newsroom'

The Newsroom on HBO hasn't exactly been a runaway hit after two seasons, and the show's head writer Aaron Sorkin decided to address this issue at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. Sorkin pretty much apologized for the underwhelming show!

"I'm going to let you all stand in for everyone in the world, if you don't mind. I think you and I got off on the wrong foot with The Newsroom and I apologize and I'd like to start over," Sorkin told the audience after being asked about the media's reaction to his show. "I think that there's been a terrible misunderstanding. I did not set the show in the recent past in order to show the pros how it should have been done. That was and remains the furthest thing from my mind. I set the show in the recent past because I didn't want to make up fake news. It was going to be weird if the world that these people were living in did not in any way resemble the world that you were living in... Also, I wanted the option of having a terrific dynamic that you can get when the audience knows more than the characters do... So, I wasn't trying to and I'm not capable of teaching a professional journalist a lesson. That wasn't my intent and it's never my intent to teach you a lesson or try to persuade you or anything."

So there you have it! Do you accept Sorkin's apology in regards to The Newsroom? Share your opinion in the comments section below!

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