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In The New 'Gilmore Girls,' Rory Gilmore Turns Out To Be A Bad Journalist 

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What happens when the person you looked up to falls from grace? Some fans of the show "Gilmore Girls" had that experience over the weekend. The show ran for seven seasons and wrapped up in 2007, and last week, Netflix brought back the show for a four-part mini-series.

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: 

Fans were looking forward to catching² up with a lot of the characters, especially Rory Gilmore. She's the ambitious, aspiring³ young journalist who had dreams of winning a Pulitzer.

CORNISH: So in the original series, I really loved her as a character, especially as a young teenage girl, you know - that she could be so sort of curious about the world and so passionate⁴ about academics. And I mean it's just - it's not something that you see depicted⁵ very often in any kind of pop culture.

SHAPIRO: That's actual journalist Megan Garber. She's a culture writer at The Atlantic who grew up watching "Gilmore Girls." She says she was disappointed with the new Netflix season and especially Rory's character.

CORNISH: That's because - spoiler alert - even though Rory does become a journalist, she's not a very good one.

MEGAN GARBER: I was talking with a lot of my journalist friends yesterday about that. And we all just were so infuriated. So I think the main one - the most obvious one is that she sleeps with a source. That's, A, just unethical on its face. But, B, Rory Gilmore herself doing that sort of fits into this pretty pernicious trope that we see a lot in Hollywood of women journalists sleeping with sources.

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ALEXIS BLEDEL: (As Rory Gilmore) I was interviewing people, and then, you know, the line moved up. And I kind of bonded⁶ with this one group. And I tagged along with them to P.J. Clarke's. We had burgers and drinks and more drinks. And then there was this guy.

GARBER: And now it has happened with Rory Gilmore, which is a disappointment. So that's the main thing. She also is interviewing a source who is very nicely talking with her and, you know, being very cooperative and explaining himself to her. And she falls asleep as he is talking. So that's both bad journalism⁷ and just extremely rude.

SHAPIRO: Even though Garber has been let down by this character, a character she used to identify with, she says maybe there's a lesson in that disappointment.

GARBER: This happens all the time in real life, you know, where you - there's someone you look up to, admire them maybe your whole life even. You love their work. And then you learn more about them. And you learn that they are flawed people just like everyone else.

So I think that it's a very common feeling to have. I don't know that "Gilmore Girls" intended itself (laughter) as sort of an object lesson in that. But I think that is probably what ended up happening. And I do think that this is the - a show just from the beginning about adulthood⁸ really and about realizing that your heroes are themselves human.

CORNISH: That was Atlantic culture writer Megan Garber. We reached her on Skype. "Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life" is out now.

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1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 catching   

adj.易传染的，有魅力的，迷人的，接住

参考例句：

• There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
• Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。

3 aspiring   

adj.有志气的；有抱负的；高耸的v.渴望；追求

参考例句：

• Aspiring musicians need hours of practice every day. 想当音乐家就要每天练许多小时。
• He came from an aspiring working-class background. 他出身于有抱负的工人阶级家庭。 来自辞典例句

4 passionate   

adj.热情的，热烈的，激昂的，易动情的，易怒的，性情暴躁的

参考例句：

• He is said to be the most passionate man.据说他是最有激情的人。
• He is very passionate about the project.他对那个项目非常热心。

5 depicted   

描绘，描画( depict的过去式和过去分词 )； 描述

参考例句：

• Other animals were depicted on the periphery of the group. 其他动物在群像的外围加以修饰。
• They depicted the thrilling situation to us in great detail. 他们向我们详细地描述了那激动人心的场面。

6 bonded   

n.有担保的，保税的，粘合的

参考例句：

• The whisky was taken to bonded warehouses at Port Dundee.威士忌酒已送到邓迪港的保稅仓库。
• This adhesive must be applied to both surfaces which are to be bonded together.要粘接的两个面都必须涂上这种黏合剂。

7 journalism   

n.新闻工作，报业

参考例句：

• He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师，可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
• He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。

8 adulthood   

n.成年，成人期

参考例句：

• Some infantile actions survive into adulthood.某些婴儿期的行为一直保持到成年期。
• Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.如今很少有人能将友谊维持到成年。