新闻编辑室第二季

Your kitchen faucet has washers.
They keep water from leaking through the joints in the fixtures. And that’s what O-rings do.
They are giant washers that keep pressurized hydrogen from leaking out of the SRB, the solid rocket booster, which shoots the space shuttle out of the Earth’s atmosphere.
These o-rings have been tested and tested under every possible circumstance but one – cold.
They didn’t test to see if the o-rings worked when it was cold.
Why would they even think to test for that?
The thing’s launching from south Florida. When’s it gonna be cold?
On January 28, 1986, a cold snap dragged the overnight temperature down to 18 degrees and turns out the o-rings stopped working below 40.
So 73 seconds after the Challenger lifts off, it converts itself into a bomb and detonates.

March 2, 1955.
A young black woman is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Alabama. Civil rights leaders and the ACLU rush to her side and she will be a symbol of the struggle against segregation. Her name is Claudette Colvin and she is 15 years old. She’s also unmarried and pregnant. Civil rights leaders and the ACLU decide that Colvin is not the best foot forward and stand down. Eight months later, Rosa Parks happens, but during that eight months, a brilliant and charismatic young minister gets the attention of the community and is chosen to lead the bus boycotts. If Colvin doesn’t get pregnant, if they would gone in spring instead of eight months later, Martin Luther King is a preacher you have never heard of in Montgomery.

从季初混乱至极的时间线和故事线，到季中不断积累的冲突和力量，再到结尾三集戏剧张力的全面爆发，两个多月的时间Sorkin和HBO给观众讲述了一起精彩绝伦的新闻“事故”的发生发展和高潮，而其规模之大就好比说水门事件是深喉一手捏造的程度。

与第一季大肆宣扬自己“伟光正”又带有精英和理想主义的新闻观不同。这9集里除了彼得雷乌斯乱搞的事件外，几乎没有诸如BP石油泄漏、击毙本拉登、埃及政变、党内选举，super PAC，还有窃听丑闻等等可以毫不费力的做出正确又合乎伦理的新闻事件。反而新闻事故成了本季编辑室里的冲突主题。卡恩性侵案进展的审查漏洞、911录音的剪辑失误、险些错判密歇根州众议院投票结果，加上作为主线剧情的热那亚行动，Sorkin一下子从教化众生的传道士变成了冷静严苛的观察者，检视着每一个编辑室里的人在面对困境和危机时如何做出关键性抉择。

“你知道我喜欢Will什么吗？他从不咬定任何事，他内心有挣扎，他从不确定自己做的事是正确的，即使有时候确实做错，但他努力做到正确。”上季里Mac对她的前前任男友刚说了这番话，回过头来，这句话就为第二季做足了铺垫。但说来说去挣扎的还是这帮编辑室里EP,SP,AP之类的Senior。

Mac依然在因为自己的Cheating被Will的惩罚虐的死去活来，即使剑桥辩论社的女王也得在爱情面前俯首称臣；

Don对Maggie的亏欠只持续了一集就陷入了对Sloan的Crash，当然哥大新闻学院毕业的他还是务正业的，比如追了9年的Troy Davis案；

Maggie简直惨绝人寰了，男友、女友、备胎全跑了，本来想当非洲事务的专家，结果还因为小黑孩的死给自己带来了一生难以磨灭的负罪感；

Jim这个上季的纯屌丝，忽然一下从备胎逆袭成了绿茶渣，除了一腔热血的怒斥竞选中的空话套话，到头来这一季的新闻他做得真是不怎么样，女人的事情倒是解决的挺地道；

至于Sloan和Neal这对靠Geek卖萌的天然呆没有什么可烦恼的略过不提。

Will和Charlie这对堂吉诃德和桑丘才是最挣扎的一双。

Will挣扎的事情太多了，从被撤下911纪念报道到父亲去世再到播报假新闻，已经让一个充满英雄主义情节和保护欲又道德感爆棚的话语精英精神崩溃，除此之外他一面要教化大众，一面还不得不保证收视率，夜深人静了还要挣扎于对“跟前男友鬼混了四个月”的Mac纠结又别扭三百棍子都打不出一个屁的爱恋。

Charlie老爷子就更心酸了，“有那么一瞬间我真想杀了你，但是我冷静下来后想，有什么可以让Charlie Skinner比死还痛苦呢？”Sorkin借着黑了Charlie的海军情报部线人之口，告诉观众新闻伦理和公众信任对于这个当新闻部主席的老头儿来说真的比命还重要。

三次的redteam过去，Charlie终于还是给热那亚行动开了绿灯，结果是48小时内被证明完全虚假，对采访视频做了手脚的制作人Jerry把罪责归咎给了审查体制，上诉ACN非法解雇自己并要求巨额赔偿。这时候，这群挣扎了许久的人们似乎终于看到了解脱的出口，辞职。

“自我牺牲是压倒一切的情感，连淫欲和饥饿跟它比较起来都微不足道了。它使人对自己人格作出最高评价，驱使人走向毁灭。对象是什么人，毫无关系；值得也可以，不值得也可以。”毛姆在《刀锋》里这样说道。于是这群搞新闻的，从高层开始，新闻部主席、主持人、执行制片纷纷向管理层提交辞呈为自己的工作失误负担责任，也是为了保住培养起来的队伍和节目。队伍里的人也嚷嚷辞职，表示没有识别出假新闻自己也有份，要求与自己的上司共进退，同时以“辞”明志。最混的还是高管，直接说你们就是群捣蛋鬼不挣钱还净添乱，，这虽然是一个糟糕透顶的商业决定，但是我不接受辞呈，因为你们是公司的骄傲，简直让人感动的涕泗纵横。

但是这帮倔驴一样的新闻人，怎么可能如此就被轻易说服呢？比起让公信力蒙羞，还是尽早回家种地扫大街比较好。于是Charlie拿着纽约市环卫工人入职考试说谁特么大选直播出岔子就给我去扫大街吧。

当然作为主席，最后也还是Charlie力挽狂澜，在那条彼得雷乌斯的突发新闻和一条会影响选民投票的一般新闻中，大家一致选择了有利于选民的一般新闻，因为那会影响到公众利益，然后这个老头终于如醍醐灌顶般的想通了，大家在这几年的新闻报道中有了多么巨大的成长，除了报道了假新闻本身，其他流程与制度上大家已经尽可能的做到最好了，又何必苛责自己呢？他决定顶住压力留下来。

接着另一个挣扎着的小伙伴Will，听完这番慷慨陈词也开窍了，拿着25w美刀买的tiffany就找Mac求婚去了，反正她也没做错除劈腿以外的任何事情，更动人的是这段表白让世界上口齿最伶俐的男人都不免舌头打结。

最后管理层也下达了决策，不接受辞职，并且与原告战斗到底，之后理所当然的就是Happy Ending，大家抽雪茄喝香槟，庆祝无人辞职，庆祝大选报道顺利，庆祝Will和Mac终于修成正果，每一个人都挣脱了自己的挣扎。

新闻就是一件择善从之或者说择正义而从之的事业，这可说是世界上最难的一件事了，所有想这样做得人都将挣扎，都将焦虑，都将怀疑，都将身负罪恶感，因为不确定我们做得是否正确，不至于像Jerry那样看到战争罪便咬死不放最后自己的执念酿成恶果。

所以在这一季里Sorkin一反常态的给了这部纠结的剧集一个大团圆，告诉每一个为着正义、神圣、善良、真相而奋斗的人们，我们注定挣扎，但是也要偶尔原谅自己，才有力气继续向前。

毕竟，连Will和Mac都幸福了。

PS：“第一次注意你的时候是你点开黄色新闻警报的时候。”
    “那只是黄色警报。”
    “但你就是忍不住”
     本季最让人泪奔的台词，没有之一

PS2:祝贺Jeff Daniels获得艾美奖视帝！

E03

Charlie: God didn't give her humanity. That's why she's a gossip columnist.

Charlie: Nothing about that idea is good.
Will: How about its honesty and honor?
Charlie: Trumped by its peril and stupidity.

E04

Jim: I'll say "Romney rocks" if you give me 30 minutes with the candidate.
Taylor: Why do you keep asking when you know the answer is going to be no?
Jim: So I can say I kept asking.

Shelly: This woman's here at Shake Shack because someone asked Will to apologize and Will said no. Do you see how things are worse than they were before?
Neal: 'Cause before you could assume that no one ever asked Will.

E05

Neal: "Another battle lost in the war on women."
Mackenzie: And also on that metaphor.

E06

Will: I did a focus group. I did it myself. I called our company and did it on my own. They did the dials and a moderator got comments after.
Sloan: Why?
Will: Why?
Sloan: Yeah.
Will: To check in. Why does a politician take polls?
Sloan: To find out what people want him to say the next day. Are you comfortable with that analogy?

E07

Mackenzie: What did he say?
Charlie: He said he was gonna kill me.
Will: Did he say it the way Mac says it to me or did it seem like he meant it?
Mackenzie: I mean it when I say it to you.
Charlie: ...Chemical weapons expert wants to kill me. I make the worst enemies.

E08

Charlie: I'm gonna go upstairs and work on Reese.
Will: You want me to help?
Charlie: I'd love you to. But someone has to endure the soul-swallowing humiliation of having their name and face broadcast next to the ACN logo for the next six hours.

Charlie: Then why don't you?
Reese: My mom says I can't.
Charlie: Reese!
Reese: I don't know how else to put it. I talked to her for hours today. I've been talking to her all night. I said, "Mom, you're gonna die and I'm gonna take over a dinged-up company." And you know what she said? She said, "I'm never gonna die. And when are you gonna give me some grandchildren? Are you gay? If you're gay, that's fine. Just tell me." I said, "I'm not gay."
Charlie: Look.
Reese: "I just haven't met the right woman yet." She's like, "Oh, that's bullshit. You met the right woman three or four times. You just always find some problem." And I was like, "You're divorced." And she said, "That's completely different."
Charlie: Reese.
Reese: I was like, "What's your obsession with grandchildren? Is it a chance for a do-over?"
Charlie: Reese!

E09

Rachel Corey: Look, I don't want to kick you guys when you're down, but you haven't had the most awesome history of being right lately.
Jim: Well, first, you can't bounce the words history and lately off each other in the same sentence...

Reese: I'm not accepting your resignations.
Charlie: We're not resigning.
Reese: That's fine, but I'm surprising you by taking the high road and I'm not accepting your resignations.
Charlie: We're not offering them.
Reese: This isn't about the bottom line. This is a bad business decision, but it's a good decision. I'm doing the right thing.
Charlie: There's no right thing to do. I've already made the decision that we're staying.
Reese: The wrong thing to do would be to accept your resignation.
Charlie: That's not an option. 'cause we're not offering them.
Leona: You two about done?
Reese: History should reflect that I acted admirably.
Charlie: There's really no way of knowing that.

有时候会觉得自己不是个特别”好相处“的人。不是故作姿态，也不是乱贴标签，就是偶尔站在自己的对立面审视一下眼前这个存在，就会有些疑惑：要怎么才能跟这种人成为朋友呢……

但是，竟然，这种人还有小伙伴，虽然不算很多。

我的小伙伴和我一定同一国的，大概我们也是世界上比较冷僻的一国人：
难免接受大量信息，却不会盲目接收；
习惯于循着自己的品位喜好去选择，讨厌人云亦云跟风从众；、
喜欢的事情虽然没有特别成立的逻辑联系，但只要是出现，就立刻会被互相贴标签。
诸如此类的……

标榜自己的时候，会觉得这是独立精神的一种表现，是一个记者——嗯，不，是曾经以记者为目标念书、实习过的小学徒该有的一种格调，曾经服务过的一个东家习惯叫它：情怀。

然后情怀这个词就成为后面工作里无法规避的标准和要求。第一季追The newsroom是因为老东家几位良知新闻人的推荐，首先是期待，然后是赞叹。

第二季第9集，点题音乐和常规感情戏好莱坞节奏的渲染的最后3分钟结束后，心里有些哽住的东西说不出来。回想起第一季的初次亮相，与时间赛跑，理智与习惯博弈的40分钟剧情，那份感动依然没有减退。

一部好作品弥合会时空交错造成的隔阂，在读者和观者所在的次元里投射成现实。看剧的最高境界也许就是当2012年编出的沙林毒气播出时，叙利亚也出现了化武危机；而提到前FBI成员貌似维系他心中正义之后，这个夏天，全世界的镜头都聚焦在莫斯科一座机场的国际中转区。我们在不由自主的对号入座，用剧中人物对照身边个体，同时反思自己。

这篇观后感写的很慢，也许是因为没有用我喜欢的字体。我这一国的人真的好烦啊，深深觉得。

而newsroom里的那一国，各自奇葩异放，性情诡异。一个腹黑的负能量发射塔一般，却总在充当大哥袒护家人的主播，一个手起刀落心直口快的制作人，一个业务精准B格超高感情懦夫的资深记者，那对互相爱来爱去又故作姿态，总不能好好聊天的搭档，还有一下子成为主线人物的小助理制作人逆袭。看起来神经病一样拒绝任何多余信息的对白，直来直往的相处方式其实看起来很过瘾。但是这个职场环境里，却有一件我们觉得不知是熟悉到可以无视、还是早已陌生的东西：爱与关怀。无论是对遥远非洲一个不相干的孩子，还是在完全可以只勉强相处8小时，然后一切可以无关的同仁。

那一国，让人艳羡。