Aaron Sorkin Wants To Apologize To Everyone About "T...

Aaron Sorkin On Why He Could Never Write An Episode ...

2. He is proud of “Newsroom,” but would do it over if he could.
“I’m going to let you all stand in for everyone in the world, if you don’t mind,” he said. “I think you and I got off on the wrong foot with ‘The Newsroom’ and I apologize and I’d like to start over.”

He emphasized that he didn’t mean to teach any lessons.

“I think that there’s been a terrible misunderstanding,” he explained.
“I did not set the show in the recent past in order to show the pros how it should have been done. That was and remains the furthest thing from my mind. I set the show in the recent past because I didn’t want to make up fake news.

It was going to be weird if the world that these people were living in did not in any way resemble the world that you were living in…I wasn’t trying to and I’m not capable of teaching a professional journalist a lesson. That wasn’t my intent and it’s never my intent to teach you a lesson or try to persuade you or anything.”

Later in the talk, he said that while he’s proud of the show, he wish he could do it over.

“I wish that I could go back to the beginning of ‘The Newsroom’ and start again and replicate what you have with a play, which is a preview period…But I’m feeling really good about how the third season is going. I’ll look back on it fondly and proudly and wish I could get every scene of every episode back so that I could do it all over again.”

He also expressed a desire to everything over again. “There’s not a single episode of TV I’ve written that I wouldn’t want back for another draft,” he said.