> That’s character in literature: not a stooge in your reverie of fair play and sound politics, but a creature of his time. > Take the best moment in Aaron Sor

> That’s character in literature: not a stooge in your reverie of fair play and sound politics, but a creature of his time. > Take the best moment in Aaron Sorkin’s imperfect show for HBO, The Newsroom ... This moment is a speech that contains among other things the incredible claim that the US is one-hundred-and-seventy-eighth in infant mortality, something that Sorkin had from a table he read upside down. That's character: not a brilliant hero, but someone unable to read a table correctly.