The Newsroom - Opening Scene (Wow!)

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1. I love that he's in the middle, symbolizing that he's the moderate.
2. This is more relevant every day!!!
3. Just..damn..he hits hard.
4. Aaron Sorkin used to have courage and write scenes and stories that were not afraid to make the antagonist actually make very good points and best the protagonist in many debates. After Studio 60 - Sorkin got scared and totally became liberal Hollywood's bitch. "The Newsroom" was as intelligent and suspenseful and nuanced as a Steven Seagal bar fight scene. The hero's tormentors sole purpose is to attack the hero in clumsy fashion so he can masterfully take them down.
5. Lol @ people on the right who equate valid criticism of one's country with being unpatriotic. Criticizing your country is the most patriotic thing one can do!Its what drives us forward and keeps us from becoming stagnant. If we didn't criticize ourselves, we would become content with inadequacy. Look no further than your beloved Trump to prove this — his whole campaign was centered on berating America, yet he was viewed as extremely patriotic.
6. There are some VERY good comments flying here! I am in my mid 50's, and of course, VERY much miss the past, especially the 80's! I lived through most of the 60's, all of the 70's & 80's, and started to die (figuratively speaking of course......) in the 90's. Reflection, upon my life, is normal, and personal, as in perspective. EVERYONE see's things a bit different, and once people get that, we can start to once again, become a cohesive society. But, at the moment, there is so much division, animosity, and disdain amungst Americans, it frankly, scares me to death. Some, or most, of your younger folks, will one day, reach disconnect with society, as us middle aged folks have, and you will be wondering, as we do, what fucking planet am I now on? Take it Godspeed.
7. during the 40s USA was indeed one of the greatest nations...just remember the MCCarthy era..and the brave journalists who stand against that dictator system.
8. After watching this, binged watch the first season. Great show so far, wish I knew about it earlier. Hopefully it's brought back...The BEST opening scene I've seen in my life.
9. I've watched this dozens of times now and it never gets old...
10. So, when was USA actually great? Segregation? Massacres of Native Americans? Slavery? Emmm.. what does he mean by saying "It sure used to be great"? The US is not and has never been a great country! The fact that it's better than Uganda and North Korea doesn't mean that it's great. Denmark is great, Norway, Sweden.. Australia and Canada are greater than this psychotic uber religious gun loving common sense hating selfish and greedy country with terrible education and very very very expensive health care. Thank you!
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11. In the past it was about how can I make this place great for all.
    Now it's about how can they make this place great for me.
    The causal effect of an entitled society. Welfare states can't survive.
    You get what you earn, and you earn what you want.
    I'm a 28 year old college graduate that has worked nothing but part time jobs that I could have gotten in high school. Yet I, like my peers, that are also struggling have trouble answering a simple question...What do you want? I can't answer that. I can tell you that I want a family, a house, a car, and to find love - but those are the byproducts of those who have a vision. I see the game is rigged. I know the truth about the corruption, the propaganda, the lies...But maybe the key to happiness is finding beauty in the filth, rather than wallowing in the mud. You can be right, and still be wrong. The meaning of life is defined by our perceptions, yet our perceptions are changing like the seasons. With age, the truths of yesterday become the lies of tomorrow.
12. Recent events have rendered me incapable of enjoying this scene.
13. Blame China. China causes all our problems.
14. doesn't the USA also currently lead the world in food exports?
    
    Go Corn!
15. He covered it pretty damn good !
16. The speech is amazing but what got me with the message the woman held up: It isn't. But it can be.
17. Some made a statement about world Hunger.   Unfortunately The word profit won't allow this to be over come.  The hungry are poor people which probably account for eighty percent of the worlds population.  The 80/20 percent split.  Eighty percent of the worlds wealth is owned by twenty percent of the worlds population.  Then 80% of that 80%, or 64%, is owned by 20% of that 20%, or 4%.  Plus if you take one step further 48% is owned by 0.8%.  That's almost half of the wealth in the world, owned by less that 1%.   Now if that 0.8% wont do anything with that 48% of that wealth unless it profits them some way,  How can it help those with the lesser amount of the wealth?    Last time I saw, in my country 56% of the work force make minimum  wage.  They have a very hard time to do anything but supply the very basics of life.  Shelter and food for themselves is about it.  They can't do anything for anybody else.  So it falls on the very rich to help but they can't do anything but Make a profit on that help,  which only makes the hungry  worse off.  Take the French revolution.   The aristocracy lived sumptuously while the people were starving in the streets.  The upper class didn't Know, or care,  about the poor.  It's just the way it is,  Monarchy or republic.
18. First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
19. from 6:35 it just gets ridiculous
20. Okay. If the U.S. isn't, who is? Almost every nation on the planet can't defend themselves if attacked by a legit military force. So they're out of the running. Then you have China and Russia.