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Aaron Sorkin's 'The Newsroom' Broadcasts His Backward Views On Women

The first minutes of The Newsroom pilot episode are a harbinger of the appalling gender representations to come. While giving a talk at a university, the show's protagonist, newscaster Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels), explodes after a perky blonde college sophomore asks a (stupid) question about why America is the greatest country in the world, referring to the dumbfounded student as a sorority girl who may or may not accidentally wander into a voting booth one day.

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