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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - #605 - Fahrenheit 5/11 (Newsroom Part 7)

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

We finally arrive at the legendary Bin Laden episode of THE NEWSROOM ("5/11") and discover that surrounding that iconic clip on the airplane is Aaron Sorkin's most revealing meditation yet on what he thinks journalism should be. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/124082719

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0:00.0

Captain, my name is Don Kiefer.

0:03.1

That's Elliot Hirsch and that's Sloan Sabbath.

0:07.0

We work for Atlanta's cable news,

0:09.3

and we wanted you and your first officer and flight attendant crazy lady

0:13.9

to be the first ones on this plane to know that our armed forces killed Osama bin Laden for you tonight.

0:19.5

When you scale that up to the whole episode and the ratio of self-serious to like

0:24.3

completely silly and ridiculous and low stakes is like 99 to one in favor of the silly and low

0:30.7

stakes, I don't know, this bit is even more ridiculous, like just Don delivering this pompous

0:36.0

little monologue where he's like, you know,

0:38.1

adorcably dressing down the flight attendant for telling him to, you know, sit down and put on his

0:43.5

seatbelt. And then he sees the stripes on the commercial airline pilots, shoulders. And he sees

0:49.1

the little like, I don't know, American Airlines badge or whatever on his chest. And he's like, sir, my name is Don

0:55.6

Kiefer. That's Elliot Hirsch and that's Sloan Sabbath. We work for Atlantis cable news. And he turns to

1:02.1

the plane and he just says, we reported the news. You know, I love that because it's like, okay,

1:08.9

even without technology, even without anything, you know, we're going to do our job of news reporting.

1:14.5

It's like, you know, a doctor may not have an office to work in, but, you know, God damn it, he can work ad hoc.

1:20.9

He can be a doctor at any moment.

1:22.4

You know, a newsman can go door to door reporting the news if need be.

1:26.5

It's part of his sacred calling. Now, I think we've

1:29.0

basically done this episode. There is just one final thing I wanted to bring up. And we've talked

1:34.7

around this already. But there is the scene where Charlie officially informs the newsroom,

1:40.5

what they're about to report, you know, that bin Laden has been killed. They all applaud and they all

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