Plot hole: Will is telling Mac that the DOJ is being out-lawyered by a group of financial institutions, including Lehman and Countrywide, both of whom went out of business in 2008, well before the date of this episode on New Year's Eve 2011.
The Newsroom (2012)
1 plot hole in season 1 - chronological order
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr.
Genres: Drama
Factual error: Most of what Will says about the Challenger's O-rings is wrong. First of all, he says they are meant to keep hydrogen from leaking out of the SRB. SRB stands for Solid Rocket Booster, meaning they use solid fuel, not hydrogen. The hydrogen was in the external fuel tank. Second, the O-rings were tested for cold, and NASA engineers recommended against launching that day, with one of them even refusing to sign off on the paperwork if the launch was to go forward. NASA overruled them and went ahead with the launch anyway, with all the disastrous consequences that ensued.
First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers - S2-E1
Rebecca Halliday: Fourteen months ago, you went on the air and called the Tea Party "the American Taliban."
Will McAvoy: I did.
Rebecca Halliday: And?
Will McAvoy: The Taliban resented it.
Trivia: When Neil is being interviewed by Rebecca Halliday he mentions a fictional country named Equatorial Kundu. This is the same fictional country mentioned in several different episodes of The West Wing, also by Aaron Sorkin.
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