The Newsroom just aired its second to last episode, "Oh Shenandoah," this past Sunday, which led to a lot of controversy that show creator Aaron Sorkin is speaking out about now.

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Sunday night after the episode aired, a writer from the third and final season of The Newsroom took to Twitter to voice her unhappiness. Alena Smith retweeted Emily Nussbaum's review of Oh Shenandoah for The New Yorker and then went on a bit of a rant.

Smith went on to say that Nussbaum is right in saying that "you can't criticize Sorkin without turning into one of his characters."

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She then went on to explain her side of the story of what happened in the writers' room for this episode.

She said she argued that the storyline should be skipped.

She also mentioned she was "kicked out of the room." She concluded she "found the experience quite boring." See what else she said below.

Sorkin sent Mediaite a comment on Monday regarding the situation with Smith.

He said he was happy to hear the episode was causing passionate debate and that the same kind of debate transpired in the writers' room too.

He also mentioned arguments in the room are encouraged. He then went into talking about Smith. "[She] joined the show for the third season, had strong objections to the Princeton story and made those objections known to me and to the room," he said.

He added, "The next day I wrote a new draft of the Princeton scenes," which is what viewers of The Newsroom witnessed on Sunday. "Alena gave the new pages her enthusiastic support," Sorkin said.

Sorkin said he was surprised to hear how unhappy she was on Twitter and even more surprised that she "so casually violated" the confidentiality of working in a writers' room.

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