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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    'The Newsroom' Says Goodbye, And More

    Aaron Sorkin didn’t mince words in a New York Times op-ed today , saying journalists who publish leaked emails from the Sony hack are “morally treasonous and spectacularly dishonorable.” The topic would’ve made great fodder for Sorkin’s series The Newsroom, if the series hadn’t aired its final episode last night.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Dec 16, 2014 • 1 min read

    Aaron Sorkin didn’t mince words in a New York Times op-ed today, saying journalists who publish leaked emails from the Sony hack are “morally treasonous and spectacularly dishonorable.” The topic would’ve made great fodder for Sorkin’s series The Newsroom, if the series hadn’t aired its final episode last night. We discuss that and more in our weekly TV roundup.

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    Sydney Standoff, The Future of Sony, and the Stars of Vine
    1. 0:00Sydney Hostage Standoff Ends With Three Dead
    2. 8:11The Future of Sony After Email Hack
    3. 16:46'The Newsroom' Says Goodbye, And MoreYou’re reading this
    4. 26:33Meet Zoella
    5. 35:39The Internet’s New Superstars
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Andrew Walsh

      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Michael Schneider

      Senior editor at Variety

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      Sarah Mesle

      Los Angeles Review of Books

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    The full episode

    3 of 5
    Sydney Standoff, The Future of Sony, and the Stars of Vine
    1. 0:00Sydney Hostage Standoff Ends With Three Dead
    2. 8:11The Future of Sony After Email Hack
    3. 16:46'The Newsroom' Says Goodbye, And MoreYou’re reading this
    4. 26:33Meet Zoella
    5. 35:39The Internet’s New Superstars
    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand