Tuesday September 21, 2021; 5:53 PM EDT
- In this clip from The Newsroom, Sloan Sabbith presses her news producer to give high-profile coverage of Republican shenanigans--refusing to raise the debt ceiling. It makes a dramatic fictional scene. #
- But near the end, Sabbith describes real politics accurately--it takes time for people to notice and understand an issue, time to decide to act, time to form alliances, time to make their concerns public, etc. The speech is a mini-primer on political process, or a portion of it.#
- Any form of journalism that doesn't take into account the time needed for political understanding, engagement, and action is either oblivious to the workings of politics, satisfied with insiders running everything, or indifferent to the quality of decision-making in the nation. #
- The insights linking politics and time in the closing section of Sabbith's dialogue are vital.#
- "You have to give the people time..."#