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      "text": "One: Your venting of your temporary frustration with a bad draft or an incompatible hiring choice to the Powers That Be at the studio and network colors their perception of that writer for FAR longer than you can possibly know. That's right, Sparky, you may have just shanked someone's career to make yourself feel better.",
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      "text": "Need an example? The West Wing outlasted Aaron Sorkin for three seasons. An extreme example, to be sure, but the studio made damned sure the show made it to syndication, turned a profit, and kept its place in all those \"top twenty/thirty/forty/fifty series of all time\" lists with or without him. Though the show was definitely seen as lacking the spark that made Sorkin's seasons a cultural event - John Wells's stewardship of the studio's precious resource produced a very respectable and stable series whose merits remained defendable to the very last day.",
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