Two years after its debut, Aaron Sorkin has finally apologized to journalists for “The Newsroom.”
The notoriously difficult writer, 52, took a moment during his Monday night interview at the Tribeca Film Festival with former Obama speech writer Jon Favreau to offer up a mea culpa to viewers of the show, reports Vulture.
“I think you and I got off on the wrong foot with ‘The Newsroom’ and I apologize and I’d like to start over,” he said.
The creator of “The West Wing” went on to say he set the show in the recent past because he didn’t want to make up fake news stories and wanted his characters to live in a world that felt real to viewers, not, as some have surmised, so he could show journalists how they should have done their job.
“So, I wasn’t trying to and I’m not capable of teaching a professional journalist a lesson,” he said.
Sorkin later admitted that the series wasn’t entirely ready when it premiered in June 2012, but that going into its third season, it had gotten better.
“I wish that I could go back to the beginning of ‘The Newsroom’ and start again and replicate what you have with a play, which is a preview period … But I’m feeling really good about how the third season is going.”
“The Newsroom” returns to HBO for its third and final season this fall.