Adapted from Rant of the Week at The Stars Hollow Gazette
Last year HBO debuted the series “The Newsroom” starring Jeff Daniels as a the very flawed anchor, “Will McAvoy“, of a popular nightly news hour on the fictitious cable channel ACN. Up until now, I have only used real people but I thought this rant was worth discussion.
This is a clip from the “We Just Decided To” episode where “McAvoy” is asked by a college student at a “town hall,” “Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?”
Trnascript can be read here
h/t Lambert Strether at naked capitalism