The Newsroom: Aaron Sorkin Takes on the Fourth Estate

In an early scene of HBO's new Aaron Sorkin drama The Newsroom, a college student asks the show's hero, Will McAvoy, why the U.S. is the best country in the world.

Summer Preview: Check out more must-watch new shows ?It's a vapid question, to be sure, but Will's mean-spirited answer - he says simply that it isn't, and then rattles off a withering, Sorkinian litany of statistics about literacy, life expectancy and infant mortality that ...

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