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ABOUT THE SHOW From the mind of Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing and screenwriter of The Social Network and Moneyball comes The Newsroom, a behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor (played by Jeff Daniels), his new executive producer (Emily Mortimer), the newsroom staff (John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel) and their boss (Sam Waterston), the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements. WHOS WHO IN THE NEWSROOM
A quote from the Broadway show Man of La Mancha (mentioned in the episode) Hear me now / Oh thou bleak and unbearable world, / Thou art base and debauched as can be; / And a knight with his banners all bravely unfurled / Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee! About Don Quixote
Don Quixote is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes. The novel follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, who reads too many chivalric novels, and sets out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who frequently deals with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood with a unique Earthy wit. On his journey Quixote encounters the world as it is-- not as he wishes it to be. In The Newsroom we meet characters who discover the world in the same way! A number of the characters have noble goals (as do most of us) but discover that life happens.
Discussion
questions....
1. Find
at
least
two
moments
from
the
show
when
we
see
the
tension
between
traditional
journalism
and
new
journalism.
4. Is
Will
a
nice
man?
Is
he
good
at
his
job?
Do
you
have
to
be
both?
2. Think about Wills speech from the beginning of the episode. How did it shape the rest of the episode?
6. How did the news team discover what was going on in the Gulf of Mexico?
7. Are sources ever mentioned in the episode? 3. What do we learn about MacKenzie at the end of the episode?