The Newsroom 1.7: 5/1

[marymary]

An anonymous source contacts Charlie and provides advance details on an imminent story of national importance. When news breaks that the President will be making a televised speech that night, the 2.0 staff cuts short its one-year (and one-week) anniversary party, and rushes back to the newsroom amidst a flurry of speculation as to what exactly

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[anatolealice]

didn't hear that many people saying, "I thought I'd feel better, but I don't." Though I like that he used her to make that point. You see that a lot in interviews with family members of murder victims, after the murderer is executed. It's a valid addition to the episode, IMO.

Yes, I liked the point you made and I'm sorry I couldn't copy and paste your reply above - I can never manage that on the iPad. Likening it to the family of a murder victim I think is exactly right, at least for that character.

I can't imagine how a New Yorker feels.

I guess because I can, though on a smaller scale (does less people dying make it better?) Aside from Bali (I didn't know anyone personally, but I watched a friend sob over someone she lost), London was intensely personal to me. So many of my friends were caught up in it, the bus was blocks away from my office. It wasn't so much a shock as the living of specfic nightmare I'd been having since Madrid. I just wanted the horror to stop, to constantly half expect it to happen again any moment. That requires a massive shift in the behaviours and attitudes of a huge number of people, not the execution of individuals.