Did Aaron Sorkin really just comment on a Slate article about The Newsroom attacking Sex and the City?

29 August 2012 Rob Buckley US TV Post a comment

Maggie in the Newsroom

So Slate’s just published a mini-takedown of the first season finale of The Newsroom for its supposed attack on Sex and the City. I won’t spoil anything for you, but here’s the scene in question in case you want it:

Now I think the author might have misinterpreted at least one scene, but that’s not what I’m going to talk about. Reading the comments of the piece – which is usually a bad idea, since male Slate commenters tend to make me ashamed of my entire gender – I came across this:

Aaron Sorkin comments on a Slate article?

Now, it seems to me unlikely that Aaron Sorkin – well known lover of both the Internet and Internet commenters – would comment on a Slate article to defend his show against the heinous charge of hating Sex and the City, but I throw it out there. What do you think? Sorkin or not Sorkin? Sex and the City lover or hater?

PS And yes, they really do have those bus tours. They’re rubbish, though.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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