After pissing off half the Internet, and at least one writer in The Newsroom writers room, with an uncomfortable episode about campus rape accusations, Aaron Sorkin released a statement a short time ago…and made it much worse. You can read the full thing at Mediaite, but here’s the key paragraph.
The next day I wrote a new draft of the Princeton scenes — the draft you saw performed last night. Alena gave the new pages her enthusiastic support. So I was surprised to be told this morning that Alena had tweeted out her unhappiness with the story. But I was even more surprised that she had so casually violated the most important rule of working in a writers room which is confidentiality. It was a room in which people felt safe enough to discuss private and intimate details of their lives in the hope of bringing dimension to stories that were being pitched. That’s what happens in writers rooms and while ours was the first one Alena ever worked in, the importance of privacy was made clear to everyone on our first day of work and was reinforced constantly. I’m saddened that she’s broken that trust. (Via)
Which activity do you think Sorkin spent a longer time doing: masturbating after typing “Princeton,” or visibly cringing for having to use the word “tweeted”? It’s a toss-up, really. Less unclear is Sorkin’s obvious disdain for those who DARE question him. He’s like the guy at a party who half-listens to what another person is saying, then begins a terse monologue with, “Actually…”
It’s amazing he’s not good friends with Roger Goodell. They could spend hours talking about feeling “violated” when someone doesn’t “protect the shield.”
