'I Think I'm The Leak,' And Other Things Women Were Wrong About On The Newsroom

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• that Will is receptive to constructive criticism
• that it's appropriate, several months later, to keep nagging Will to reveal what was in that "I'm not just saying this because I'm high" voicemail
• that it's still efficient to read physical newspapers and mark them up with a highlighter
• "She expressed remorse. We had a connection."
• "You forgot you were mad at me."
• that any woman should work for the misogynist Mitt Romney presidential campaign
• that Will deserves to have anyone intervene, on his behalf, in his love life
• that when someone else identifies her as an expert in military helicopters and that she seems like she actually is, she should (modestly) say she isn't
• ignoring explicit instructions with regard to which malaria drug to request from her doctor
• that her personal malaria-drug concerns are worth interrupting a staff meeting to freak out about
• that she might be experiencing side effects from a drug she just took for the first time ten minutes earlier
• that Occupy Wall Street is still not worth covering
• that "impressed" isn't the right word but "I can't think of the right one!"
• that she should ignore her executive producer
• which ear her headphone controller goes in
• that the best way to push Romney on women's issues is to get embedded with his campaign
• that 5.9 is around half of 9.1
• "OWS does nothing for me."
• that OWS makes the Tea Party look good by comparison
• "the pyjama party"
• that Will has never been "unfair"
• that the reason to pitch a story about Africa is to escape all the shit going down in her personal life
• that an untested person trying to escape all the shit going down in her personal life should produce her first location shoot in Africa
• believing that a gossip columnist "regretted a lot of things she'd done"
• that it's appropriate to ask someone who'd hacked her voicemail about the content of one of the deleted messages
• that it's a good idea to Do Sex with Will

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