Sometimes I have to escape the written word. Sometimes my eyes hurt, or my brain runs out of juice. Sometimes I don’t even have it left in me to read for pleasure.
So I watch some TV. I love documentaries, and anything about fashion, and stand-up comedy. (I made my daughter watch Steve Martin’s The Jerk for my birthday.)
Last night I discovered The Newsroom on HBO Max. I don’t mean discover as in “I didn’t know this existed,” but discovered as in “I didn’t have access to this back-in-the-day” so I’m really excited now. The pilot is ridiculously long. Despite two sittings, I still haven’t finished it. But I did just hear the best quote from Mackenzie, the potential executive producer on the news program. She defines good journalism as:
“…speaking truth to stupid.”
So simple. So direct.
And at the end of the episode, when it was stated that the executive producer was emotionally and physically exhausted, Mackenzie replies:
“I’ve been exhausted since I was thirty. Everyone’s exhausted.”
Who here can relate?
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