The Newsroom (TV Series)

We Just Decided To (2012)

Emily Mortimer: MacKenzie McHale

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• Will McAvoy : What does winning look like to you?

  Mackenzie MacHale : Reclaiming the fourth estate. Reclaiming journalism as an honorable profession. A nightly newscast that informs a debate worthy of a great nation. Civility, respect and a return to what's important; the death of bitchiness; the death of gossip and voyeurism; speaking truth to stupid. No demographic sweet spot; a place where we can all come together.

• [Mac has changed the title display from "News Night with Will McAvoy" to "Vertigo Medicine with Will McAvoy"] 

  Will McAvoy : I'm at least glad nobody's invented a way to digitally store images and upload them to a free website where anyone can see them.

  Mackenzie MacHale : *Has* someone invented a way to digitally store images...

  Will McAvoy : [shouts]  YouTube! YouTube! Take it down!

  Mackenzie MacHale : Well, now you're just a crazy guy shouting "YouTube"!

• Mackenzie MacHale : You know what you left out of your sermon? That America is the only country on the planet that, since its birth, has said over and over and over that we can do better. It's part of our DNA. People will want the news if you give it to them with integrity. Not everybody, not even a lot of people: 5%. And 5% more of anything is what makes the difference in this country. So we can do better.

• Mackenzie MacHale : I've come here to produce a news broadcast that more closely resembles the one we did before you got popular by not bothering anyone, Leno.

  Will McAvoy : I think Jay and I would rather be employed, if it's all the same to you.

  Mackenzie MacHale : It's not all the same to me, you punk. I've come here to take your IQ and your talent and put it to some patriotic fucking use.