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MSNBC Plays Hardball With Matthews & Sorkin

MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who played himself on a 2005 episode of Aaron Sorkin's NBC series "The West Wing," won't be making a repeat appearance in Sorkin's new HBO pilot about a fictional all-news cable network, "More As This Story Develops."

Josef Adalian writes that MSNBC execs nixed the idea, with Adalian's "spy" speculating "the network's brass may have taken issue with the way More portrays the world of cable news and its corporate culture. In the pilot script we've seen, it's a land of egomaniacs working for wealthy drunks."

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