But that doesn't prevent giving four stars. In fact, the most impressive of the three episodes is the three I's of Mac in the second episode: 1) Is this information we need in the voting booth? 2) Is this the best possible form of the argument? 3) Is the story in historical context?
what is this? This is the agenda-setting of the media, the agenda setting. What is important and what is not. More important than the answer is what question to ask and what is the issue. For ratings, distribution, click-throughs—for advertising, for revenue, media give audiences what they want, not what they need. That's why Mac and Will are arguing over whether it's good enough news for a smaller audience or not good enough news for a larger audience.
The "confession" at the beginning of the third episode is undoubtedly a representative work of Sorkin's hopeless idealism and his own speaking out, but what impressed me was the story about the Tea Party in the 2010 midterm elections- Sloan, who "dances pole dancing while taking an economics class," asks the elected congressman that question about the debt ceiling and Will challenges Koch Industries to two Tea Party members. Seeing this paragraph, I can't help but believe the joke on the Internet that Sorkin bumped into his own toilet glass while reading his script, hahaha... This kind of irony is really intoxicating, isn't it?
Say it wrong. In fact, what I want to say is that the reason why the United States is the United States, the reason why it has the ability to correct itself every time the direction deviates, is inseparable from the free media, and academic, media, and politics. The close interaction between them is inseparable. Even as developed as the United States, there will be times when the falsehood prevails, but fortunately, there is always a force that can mobilize the elites of the public to participate in the discussion of public affairs, to repeat the truth, and to achieve justice. This is what makes America America.
(2012.7.12)
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