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-->'''Will:''' I’ve got a guy on my staff who got hit in the head with a glass door Thursday. His forehead wouldn’t stop bleeding but he wouldn’t go to a doctor ‘cause I got another guy who got beat up covering Cairo, and the first guy wouldn’t see a doctor until the second guy saw a doctor. I’ve got a producer who ran into a locked door ‘cause he felt responsible for the second guy. I’ve got an 18-year-old kid risking his life halfway around the world and the AP who sent him there hasn’t slept in three days. I’ve got 20-somethings who care about teachers in Wisconsin. I’ve got a grown woman who has to subtract with her fingers staying up all night to learn economics from a [=PhD=] who could be making 20 times the money three miles downtown. ''They’re'' journalists.
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-->'''Will:''' I’ve got a guy on my staff who got hit in the head with a glass door Thursday. His forehead wouldn’t wouldn’t stop bleeding but he wouldn’t go to a doctor ‘cause I got another guy who got beat up covering Cairo, and the first guy wouldn’t see a doctor until the second guy saw a doctor. I’ve got a producer who ran into a locked door ‘cause he felt responsible for the second guy. I’ve got an 18-year-old kid risking his life halfway around the world and the AP who sent him there hasn’t slept in three days. I’ve got 20-somethings who care about teachers in Wisconsin. I’ve got a grown woman who has to subtract with her fingers staying up all night to learn economics from a [=PhD=] who could be making 20 times the money three miles downtown. ''They’re'' journalists.
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** In-universe, rejecting this is a key part of Will's attempt to turn around ''News Night.'' One of his rules is "Engage with the best form of the argument --" that is, don't nut pick the craziest people on either side of the issue, but instead find the smartest, most articulate advocates possible so you can have the most illuminating discussion/argument. Out-of-universe, well, this maybe wasn't a priority for Aaron Sorkin....
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**In the season 1 finale Charlie, Will and Mackenzie confront Reese and Leona with an envelope [[spoiler: of evidence of Reese's illegal hacking of Mackenzie's phone.]] It's revealed after [[spoiler: Reese had already incriminated himself and been recorded that the envelope didn't actually have the evidence but a recipe for beef stew.]] If Reese had just checked the envelope [[spoiler: before admitting his guilt,]] the whole gambit would have failed.
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* AcceptableTargets: In season 3, Jim judges Hallie harshly for being a part of "viral media" despite the fact that it's been irrefutably proven that ACN's "old media" isn't exactly foolproof.
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** [=MacKenzie=] gets hers in the first episode with her Don Quixote speech to Will and, when the show goes to air with breaking news, the line "Nothing on the prompter is what this man eats for breakfast."
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** [=MacKenzie=] gets hers in the first episode with her Don Quixote speech to Will and, when the show goes to air with breaking news, the line "Nothing on the prompter is what where this man eats for breakfast.eats."
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** Neal's comes in "Amen", during his work with the Egyptian reporter Khaled.
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** Neal's comes Neal arguably gets two: one in “I’ll Try to Fix You” with his staunch avocation that there is evidence supporting the existence of Bigfoot; and the second in "Amen", during his work when he tells Will and the production team about having been on one of the trains bombed in the 7/7 attack.
** Charlie’s comes in the pilot: in the scene between him and Will in the AWM executive dining room, Charlie shows he can go toe to toe with theEgyptian reporter Khaled.hot-headed Will & then put it right back away instead of taking it out on the waitress who approached immediately afterwards.
** Charlie’s comes in the pilot: in the scene between him and Will in the AWM executive dining room, Charlie shows he can go toe to toe with the
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Maggie, in the framing story of Season Two's first episode, serving mostly to ForeShadow bad things in her future.
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Maggie, in the framing story of Season Two's first episode, serving mostly to ForeShadow bad things in her future.signal that she underwent a significant (and not necessarily positive) change between seasons. When we find out the reason behind the drastic change, which is lampshaded more than once, it’s utterly heartbreaking & completely understandable.
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** Jim's introduction in the pilot episode has him read a random yellow news alert (lower priority) without anyone telling him to, which leads to the Deepwater Horizon story. Maggie, after mentioning this scene in the second season finale, ends the episode by [[spoiler:clicking on a random yellow news alert]][[note]][[All it read was, "Beijing China to pick-" presumably alluding to the parallel Communist Party elections occurring across the world. What ''might'' turn it red? The [[http://travel.cnn.com/beijing-snowstorm-645451 deadly, freak snowstorm]] that descended at the same time[[/note]]]].
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** Jim's introduction in the pilot episode has him read a random yellow news alert (lower priority) without anyone telling him to, which leads to the Deepwater Horizon story. Maggie, after mentioning this scene in the second season finale, ends the episode by [[spoiler:clicking on a random yellow news alert]][[note]][[All alert]][[note]]All it read was, "Beijing China to pick-" presumably alluding to the parallel Communist Party elections occurring across the world. What ''might'' turn it red? The [[http://travel.cnn.com/beijing-snowstorm-645451 deadly, freak snowstorm]] that descended at the same time[[/note]]]].time[[/note]].
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* CatharticExhalation: Invoked during the episode ''Fix You''; the crew is waiting on confirmation that Gabby Giffords has been killed. When they get the news that she is in fact still alive and awaiting surgery, the technical director tells the graphics guy to "breathe normally."
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* CatharticExhalation: Invoked during the episode ''Fix You''; You'': the graphics guy (with great sadness) created a card with Gabby Giffords’ birth and “death” years when other news outlets all began asserting she had been killed in the Tuscon shooting. When the ACN crew is waiting on scoop all of them by getting confirmation that Gabby Giffords has been killed. When they get the news that she is is, in fact fact, still alive and awaiting surgery, the technical director tells the graphics guy to "breathe normally."regular" as he shakily edits the card to remove the dates.
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** Jim's introduction in the pilot episode has him read a random yellow news alert (lower priority) without anyone telling him to, which leads to the Deepwater Horizon story. Maggie, after mentioning this scene in the second season finale, ends the episode by [[spoiler:clicking on a random yellow news alert[[note]]All it read was, "Beijing China to pick-" presumably alluding to the parallel Communist Party elections occurring across the world. What ''might'' turn it red? The [[http://travel.cnn.com/beijing-snowstorm-645451 deadly, freak snowstorm]] that descended at the same time[[/note]]]].
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** Jim's introduction in the pilot episode has him read a random yellow news alert (lower priority) without anyone telling him to, which leads to the Deepwater Horizon story. Maggie, after mentioning this scene in the second season finale, ends the episode by [[spoiler:clicking on a random yellow news alert[[note]]All alert]][[note]][[All it read was, "Beijing China to pick-" presumably alluding to the parallel Communist Party elections occurring across the world. What ''might'' turn it red? The [[http://travel.cnn.com/beijing-snowstorm-645451 deadly, freak snowstorm]] that descended at the same time[[/note]]]].
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* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Creator/OliviaMunn's Sloan Sabbith speaks legitimately fluent Japanese.
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* TheyDo: [[spoiler:Will and Mac get engaged in the second season finale]].
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: All the main couples have UnresolvedSexualTension for lengthy stretches. [[spoiler:In all cases, TheyDo]]. Specifically:
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: All the main couples have UnresolvedSexualTension for lengthy stretches. [[spoiler:In all cases, TheyDo]]. [[RelationshipUpgrade it gets resolved]].]] Specifically:
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The famous "America is not the greatest nation" scene / rant is triggered when the college professor who is moderating the debate that Will is participating in gets a little cocky and tries to goad Will into offering a substantive answer to the question "Why is America the greatest nation in the world?" Judging by the deer-in-the-headlights expression he gets and the speed he tries to change the subject when Will finally snaps and gives him the substantive answer he was looking for [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech with both barrels]], he's quickly regretting that he didn't just let it lie.
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* BrandishmentBluff: Played for laughs. Sloane enters Will's office waving a piece of paper around and declaring "Drone strike!" When new hire Jerry Dantana asks to see the paper and get more info she admits it's blank and she "just wanted a prop".
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Happens to Charlie. [[spoiler: His government contact blames him for his son being fired from ACN and eventually overdosing. When Charlie retorts that his son deserved to be fired for his unprofessional behavior, the guy casually slaps him hard]]. Charlie (and the viewers) are justifiably taken aback.
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* BitchSlap: Happens to Charlie. [[spoiler: His government contact blames him for his son being fired from ACN and eventually overdosing. When Charlie retorts that his son deserved to be fired for his unprofessional behavior, the guy casually slaps him hard]]. Charlie (and the viewers) are justifiably taken aback.
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->''Seriously, I have a Wiki/TVTropes page?''
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->''Seriously, I have a Wiki/TVTropes Website/TVTropes page?''
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* HollywoodNerd: Sloan, Neal and Jim are all the sexy variety.
