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Blasting The Daily Beast and others by name, Aaron Sorkin wrote a New York Times op-ed Monday ripping journalists for reporting on what’s inside Sony Pictures’ hacked files. The Newsroom writer trashed publications for running articles that included information that was already publicly available—and in which he and some of his movies, like the troubled Steve Jobs biopic, were discussed. “Every news outlet that did the bidding of the Guardians of Peace is morally treasonous and spectacularly dishonorable,” the famously self-righteous Sorkin wrote on the same day Sony lawyer David Boies threatened the media (including The Beast) and asked them to destroy Sony’s files. Sorkin suggested that reporters were worse than the hackers themselves. “As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.”
The Daily Beast revealed new emails from the Sony hack between Sorkin and the New York Times' Maureen Dowd where he explains why he believes women don't have equal roles in Hollywood. As a result, Sorkin wrote, "the guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins Best Actress.”