At the beginning of the episode, Will is eager for the audience's attention and avoids talking about political views so as not to offend the public. From a utilitarian point of view, he is a successful news anchor who can please the audience and make money for the TV station. But from the beginning, he was not successful, or even failed. Because as a former public prosecutor, he chose to enter the journalism industry because he wanted to bring true and reliable information to voters, contribute to the country he lives in, and bring about change, rather than go with the crowd and grandstanding. When you do something you don't really want to do, no matter how successful you are, you will not be happy. What's more, Will is not short of money. As an elite class of society, what he pursues is the realization of personal value. When he is neither recognized by his colleagues, nor does he follow his ideal job, he is not successful. , but only numbly following worldly definitions. Everyone sees Will as a successful news anchor, but Will's best friend Charlie understands that Will loses himself step by step in the process of catering to the audience, and is swallowed by the world step by step.
So, Charlie found MacKenzie - the source of Will's change. Three years ago, MacKenzie betrayed Will and cheated on his ex-boyfriend, causing the two to break up. Will's personality changed drastically, and MacKenzie chose to go to the battlefield as a military reporter and leave New York. McKenzie returned three years later and became Will's executive producer, which also evoked Will's original intention to enter the news industry - to re-establish the fourth power and fulfill the responsibility of truthful reporting. Infected by MacKenzie, Will leads the workers of the evening news in a doomed war to bring the news back to rationality and deliver the truth to the audience. At the end of the first season, the ratings for the evening news dropped, Will was called the great fool by MacKenzie's ex-boyfriend, had a damaged career, received death threats for the comments, took long-term antidepressants, was sent for internal bleeding When I got to the hospital, it looked like I lost and couldn't lose anymore, but what I saw was the resurrection of a man. At the beginning of the season, Weil's people left, and at the end of the season, every colleague chose to stay in the evening news; at the beginning of the season, students from Northwestern University had asked for compensation for mental damage, but at the end of the season, they volunteered to come to the evening news for an internship; at the beginning of the season, Wei Er is just a cash cow for ACN, and at the end of the season, Will really got the respect of the ACN executives. More importantly, Will finally lives as himself instead of the way the world wants, completes the reawakening of self and the realization of personal value. the great fool, is the great fool, but also the great fool.
From a gender perspective, men are more realistic, and women are more idealistic. Realistic people are more likely to be successful, while great people are mostly idealists. Reality and ideals, success and greatness, are different in value orientation. The reason why Will is so fascinated by MacKenzie is precisely because MacKenzie's idealism is also his idealism, MacKenzie's pursuit of news is also his pursuit of news, and so is MacKenzie's adherence to the truth of news. The conscience of the media that he pursues, the two of them are not only partners in work, but also soul mates. At Northwestern University, Will panics when he sees MacKenzie offstage because MacKenzie betrayed their relationship, but Will betrayed their pursuit. Will is the anchor sitting on stage, MacKenzie is the executive producer behind the scenes, and MacKenzie's return awakens Will to form a newsroom that makes great news.
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