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Actress Emily Mortimer discusses her time on the HBO series 'The Newsroom,' sharing how creator Aaron Sorkin's vision was prophetic regarding the dangers of misinformation on the internet. She reflects on the show's core message about a well-informed electorate and argues that its themes are more relevant today than ever.
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00:00I am such a huge fan of the newsroom and I feel like that show could have lasted forever because
00:04it's just about the previous year's news and it's you know I just think we need it now I'm
00:09wondering if you ever find yourself thinking about how would Mackenzie cover what's happening
00:15in the world right now totally I mean I think about it all the time and there's a line that
00:19I had to say in the newsroom which was there's nothing more important for democracy than a
00:25well-informed electorate and and that it seems to me that the main trouble in the world right now is
00:34that information the lack of kind of truthful information the difficulty in finding information
00:41that has been vetted and is more or less true is um is part of the major pickle that we're
00:48in and I can
00:48remember Aaron Salkin saying that when we were making the show and and the you know the internet
00:54and the world wide web was a kind of fairly new thing and he kept going on about the kind
00:59of you
00:59know the the scourge and the terror of the internet and how it was such a dangerous thing and we
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01:04like come on get with it granddad like this is fine it's cool it's wonderful and he was so right
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01:10was so prophetic that show if you look back at it now and I keep thinking he should just do
01:14one now
01:15and now is when we need it more than ever to show us what's happening
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