What sucked about the "evacuate" scene wasn't that the junior reporter was happy to be corrected (some people are just agreeable); what sucked was that the newsroom grammarians were dead wrong. "Evacuate" has been used popularly in the sense corrected on The Wire since the 1920's (first usage dates to the 18th century).

It actually wouldn't have been so bad if Simon had just let the scene speak for itself (pop grammarians in newsrooms are usually wrong); but then he has the corrected reporter checking Webster's (of all dictionaries!) and saying they were right. Now I don't happen to have that pocket version of Webster's, so I can't be sure. But I'd be shocked to find out that any modern edition of the wonderfully liberal Webster's would confirm such nonsense.

My Merriam Websters includes both senses of the word.

Aren't lots of dictionaries called Webster's, since it's out of trademark? Might have been one of the bad ones.