[amadeuspagel]

> 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.