Sorkin: We're Eating Each Other Alive
First McChrystal, now Petraeus. Why does the public love watching a hero stumble? In a conversation with Newsweek & The Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin said reveling in a legend's downfall 'fulfills a not very heroic desire on our part to feel superior.'
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