At Asking The Wrong Questions, Abigail Nussbaum writes about Aaron Sorkin, the “Oh Shenandoah” episode of Sorkin’s The Newsroom, The Newsroom writer Alena Smith and women speaking out about their experiences. “What we’re seeing here is Aaron Sorkin becoming an Aaron Sorkin character, making the same arguments as Don. In his conception of reality, a woman who feels that she’s been treated unjustly and has no hope of redress from the hierarchy above her, also has no right to speak out, because doing so is Rude.” (She also gathers together responses from many other television writers).
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