9 thoughts on “The Newsroom”

  1. Since I don’t get HBO, this show means nothing to me. Even when HBO has one of those free viewing periods, there’s little worth watching. There are better uses for mu money and time than HBO. This show just confirms that opinion.

    1. Hey, that means you’ll miss George Bush’s severed head mounted on a pike in HBO’s Game of Thrones. Even some liberal Hollywood actors thought that was too much.

  2. I, too, don’t get HBO and will probably never see The Newsroom. But I would take a moment to defend The West Wing. A liberal fantasy world? Sure, I guess so. But at a time when conservatives were the standard dark villains on just about any television show, West Wing generally portrayed them fairly.

    Fairly? Yes, the Bartlet Administration was quite liberal and insulated from regular folk and they spoke that way, they believed that way. The heroes were liberal. But at least when a Republican was shown, he or she made a conservative or libertarian argument in much the same way I would. One example was the gay Republican congressman who was Republican because he thought small government and small budgets were more important than sexuality.

    This attitude towards Republicans even continued after Sorkin left the show after the fourth season, though it was less well done and prone more to stereotypes, as was the show in general.

    Mostly, the show was just well-written, well-acted, and well-produced. Even when I did not like what was coming out of their mouths, I still liked those people. Also liked Sorkin’s Studio 60. Wonder if The Newsroom might be nearly as good.

  3. I don’t get HBO, but I would have paid Amazon to see this based on the buzz I was hearing. But THEN, I heard Jeff Daniels saying that people from both sides of the aisle are getting sold a bill of goods. And all because of, “…cable news shows…”.

    Seriously?

    I was willing to watch, to see if it was going to cut down the middle, which is what I’d read. But when Daniels put the blame for crappy news, disinformation and outright propaganda in CABLE only, I was done.

    John,
    and when you saw Martin Sheen talking about the show he always said it was about a liberal, conservatives are the bad guys point of view. And I think the show got formulaic and schmaltzy after about Season 3.

    It was either hand wringing or crying.

  4. @Sorkinisms

    Wow…

    Good thing we have Youtube so people can’t get away with stuff like this anymore.

  5. The movie “Malice” (Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman) was an improved rip-off of a made-for-TV movie whose name eludes me. But it was a rip-off nevertheless, and today I’m unable to find any acknowledgement of that online. Which means it was completely stolen, and all traces of the theft have been erased.

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