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Trying To Guess What The (mass) Audience Wants And Then Trying To Satisfy That Is Usually A Bad Recipe For Getting Something Good.

We Live In A World That Has Walls, And Those Walls Have To Be Guarded By Men With Guns.

It's Important To Remember That, First And Foremost, If Not Only, This Is Entertainment. 'the West Wing' Isn't Meant To Be Good For You.

The Monica Lewinsky Scandal Was Happening At The Very Time I Was Writing The West Wing Pilot And It Was Hard, At Least For Americans, To Look At The White House And Think Of Anything But A Punch Line. Plus A Show About Politics, A Show That Took Place In Washington, Had Just Never Worked Before In American Television. So The Show Was Delayed For A Year.

Good Writers Borrow From Other Writers. Great Writers Steal From Them Outright.