He finds them limiting, because they are a prescription for human behavior, that doesn’t allow you any flexibility. He doesn’t entertain the notion of good and evil. He is a man who doesn’t operate on the same spectrum of ethics that a lot of other people do. It’s like when people ask whether Francis is good or bad. And Zoe Barnes was the perfect opportunity to explore that.īW: I don’t think the terms “good” and “bad” apply to her. Who felt no allegiances, either through nostalgia or prestige, to the old way things were being done. But we were interested in a journalist who felt much more comfortable in this new, instantaneous, fast-paced age. And they still do, people still look at The Times, The Observer, The Post, The Tribune, as a place to localize the discussion, what is important. In the 90s, the big print organs still ruled the day. This is what we were thinking about, how to dramatize the media in House of Cards, as the BBC version couldn’t be used. People were typing out stories on Blackberries and over emails. I remember as an advance guy for Dean, one of my major jobs was trucking around Iowa making sure we had a T1 line everywhere we went so our reporters would have somewhere to file. Now we always have people writing in real time, people are tweeting about events, taking photos of them, and the media has to compensate. We had full-time bloggers who were writing about these events in real time. That seems par the course now, but in 2004 it was really extraordinary. I remember on the Dean campaign, Joe Trippi was the major architect of this, we instituted a wireless bubble for the press bus. There was very little thought put to the Internet as a campaigning tool. NYO: How did your time working on the campaigns of Chuck Schumer, Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton inform your idea of what Zoe Barnes would look like as a new media blogger?īeau Willimon: When I was working on my first campaign, the Schumer campaign, the Internet was in its infancy. Willimon–the 36-year-old screenwriter and playwright whose next project will be The Breathing Time at the Faultline Theatre (March 21 – April 13)–to help explain the genesis of TV’s most divisive journalist character.
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