"The Newsroom" creator Aaron Sorkin has some regrets about the HBO series.

On Monday, Sorkin sat down for a discussion during the Tribeca Film Festival. When asked what the show taught him about the media, he responded with an apology.

"I'm going to let you all stand in for everyone in the world, if you don't mind," he said. "I think you and I got off on the wrong foot with 'The Newsroom,' and I apologize and I'd like to start over."

The series will begin its third season this fall, which will also be its last.

"I think that there's been a terrible misunderstanding," Sorkin continued. "I did not set the show in the recent past in order to show the pros how it should have been done. That was and remains the furthest thing from my mind. I set the show in the recent past because I didn't want to make up fake news. It was going to be weird if the world that these people were living in did not in any way resemble the world that you were living in."

Sorkin added that he was going for a dramatic irony effect where the audience knows more than the story's characters do.

"So, I wasn't trying to and I'm not capable of teaching a professional journalist a lesson," Sorkin explained. "That wasn't my intent, and it's never my intent to teach you a lesson or try to persuade you or anything."

Sorkin also revealed that while he was giving the interview, "The Newsroom" was filming an episode in California. The episode will be about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, according to BuzzFeed. This marked the first time Sorkin was not on set while something he wrote was being filmed.

"I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism," he continued. "I'm not as smart as the characters are or, as you can see, as articulate."

Despite his regrets, Sorkin did state that he enjoys working on "The Newsroom."

"I've very proud of 'The Newsroom,'" he shared. "I have the time of my life working with the people that I work with, but there is a learning curve and unfortunately, those lessons are learned in front of several million people ... I wish that I could go back to the beginning of 'The Newsroom' and start again and replicate what you have with a play, which is a preview period ... but I'm feeling really good about how the third season is going. I'll look back on it fondly and proudly ..."

Listen to the full interview below:

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