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Sorkin echoes Will McAvoy, the "News Night" anchor he created, when he says, "The news isn't biased toward the left or toward the right, it's biased toward fairness. If the Republican congressional caucus were to walk onto the floor of the House and offer a resolution saying the world is flat," the next day's headlines would likely read: "Democrats and Republicans can't agree on shape of Earth." What are the chances that the real-world media might get with Sorkin's program? In researching "The Newsroom," Sorkin says he spoke with numerous executives and producers at news outlets, and asked them two questions on how to get better: "What would a utopian news broadcast be? And, what's stopping you from doing it?" The responses to the first question varied only slightly, he says, and had to do with narrowing the definition of "news" to mean more relevant, necessary and useful information. But what was the answer to that all-important second question? According to Sorkin, "It was almost uniformly some version of the word
'guts.'"
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