Arron Sorkin's writings: Tell the bloody truth first: 'The first step to resolving a problem is recognizing that there is one.

The Newsroom: America is no longer the greatest country in the world. (Restricted language)

Any sane American watching this in 2024 would agree with his points. "We waged a war on poverty, not poor people."

Fear the silence: "We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn't scare so easily."  This one hits fucking home, man.  The worst part of American politics is the division.

Instead of solving PROBLEMS, we wish to be ENTERTAINED 

@rongross309

9 days ago
This is even MORE relevant today! Especially after what just happened on Nov. 5, 2024.
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@Matt86427

10 years ago
This is the most amazing answer I have ever heard. I totally agree with whoever wrote this show and had the courage to stand up and say it. Somebody has too. I was in the army and fought in Iraq. When I got injured, people said I made a sacrifice for our country.

But to be completely honest, I don't know what the hell we were and still are fighting for. It wasn't 9/11 because we got Saddam and Osama. And we are still there. We are losing our sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, to a war that has no moral value. Bring our men home. The Iraqis and Afghanis don't want us there. We are messing with a culture that has existed just as long as ours. We fought the Revolutionary War for our freedom from the British trying to tell us what religion to be and how to live, work, and eat; they tried to take away our culture and our way of life.

It is precisely like what we are doing to them. We are the enemies over there, and more and more each day, it angers me that I agreed to follow the orders of my superiors and go along with Bush's and Obama's wars.

Stop spending billions of dollars on weapons of war and put it toward making our country what it once was. I remember when gas was 99 cents per gallon, and families were generally caring about their sons and daughters and held family events.

Welfare wasn't so prevalent, and the unemployment rate was not even heard about. The problem with why we are not the greatest country in the world is that we are too busy fighting other people's wars, and we are using more than 3/4 of our nation's budget to fight them.

Don't get me wrong, I love the United States of America more than anything in the world, and I would die to defend my country and my family, but only if it is a direct threat to the American Way of Life. I, like many others of my brothers in arms, Past, Present, and Future, is the History and the future of our country's development; we have fought for Independence and the abolition of Slavery, fought to stop the slaughter of millions of Jews, and we have leveled cities for the destruction of our country.

Do we, as this generation, want to be remembered as mercenaries who fought for importation and exportation rights, fighting for oil, taking the lives of innocent children, and depriving a culture to live free the way they want to live? I sure as hell don't. We are letting our nation slip away. We are losing our freedom because now everything has a price tag, and more than 1/2 can't afford to live free anymore. Please leave comments. I want to know what you think about this. We need to stand up and make this country truly FREE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTjMqda19wk 

3,530,355 views  Jul 21, 2012
Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) hits the nail straight on the head in the opening minutes of HBO's new series 'The Newsroom.' 

A college student asks him a simple question during a campus debate:  'What makes America the greatest country in the world?'  Daniels initially goes the politically correct route, then at the last minute goes with an honest, bold, straightforward answer that sums up many of the world's problems that so many are afraid to accept because we all want to believe in our system and that it is our system that works.

https://youtu.be/-__djIQgBJc?si=CDUhrdsC54WnJhPw (Michael Douglas)

The evidence that is out there today is to the contrary, and he discloses such information in his argument.  We used to be the world's best of the best, and now we are just pretending.  The first step to solving a problem is to admit there is one.

https://youtu.be/StdK0Th_bPs?si=4tEY3Mg1TER1yVzI Part 1

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She guided, but not forced, the intern to realize that calm, considerate, and proper answers will win her the position."