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"Newsroom" Notes: It Was Exactly the Kind of Day You'd Expect
Spoilers Ahead. If you haven't yet watched the series finale of The Newsroom, entitled "What Kind of Day Has It Been?", you might want to come back here later. Finally, we can stop watching The Newsroom out of genuine love and appreciation or for the oodles of good snark ...read more
"Newsroom" Notes: Campus Rape and a Newsroom Mutiny Create an Episode Ripped from the Headlines (Updated)
Spoilers Ahead: If you haven't yet watched this week's episode of The Newsroom and plan to, you may want to come back here later. As usual, this will be mostly analysis rather than a straightforward recap. ** Update Below ** What makes South Park so uncannily able to be timely ...read more
"Newsroom" Notes: So Close and Yet So Far
Spoilers Ahead: If you haven't seen last night's episode of HBO's The Newsroom and plan to, come back to this later. As usual, these are just some observations, not a beat-by-beat recap. John Gallagher Jr. is 30-years-old, therefore you have to imagine the character he plays on ...read more
"Newsroom" Notes: The Only Way Out Is Through
My computer was having technical difficulties yesterday so apologies for being a day late, but you know how the overall deal with this semi-regular column works: You're about to hear spoilers for this week's episode of The Newsroom, so if you haven't yet seen it and plan to, you ...read more
"Newsroom" Notes: Now, Sorkin Finally Starts To Get It Right
Spoilers ahead. If you haven't yet seen the season premiere of The Newsroom, entitled "Boston," and plan to you should do yourself a favor and come back to this later. Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom returned to HBO last night for the first of six episodes that will wrap-up the ...read more
Quote of the Day: Aaron Sorkin Is Sorry for "The Newsroom"
"I think you and I got off on the wrong foot with The Newsroom and I apologize and I’d like to start over.” -- Aaron Sorkin speaking to an audience at the Tribeca Film Festival last night He asked the crowd on-hand to stand in for basically everybody, all of us out in TV land. ...read more
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"Newsroom" Notes: Happily Ever After
I need to say right off the bat that I'm aware that writing about a TV show right now seems like a waste of time; there's much more important news going on this afternoon, but given that this has become a weekly franchise and last night's episode of The Newsroom was the ...read more
The Morning Banter: The Zimmerman Time Bomb, Armstrong Lies, "In Utero" Turns 20
Happy Friday, all. Here's what you should probably be reading this morning because it's better than sitting around trying to figure out how you can duck out of work early: 1. Chief Concern This is shaping up to be a big deal: In what I assume he mistakenly figured would be a ...read more
"Newsroom" Notes: Sorkin's Bad Night
You know the drill: If you haven't yet seen last night's episode of The Newsroom and plan to, don't bother reading any further. Spoilers abound. There's a reason that while I can say that I watch The Newsroom regularly I've always had to temper it with the seemingly ...read more
"Newsroom" Notes: It All Falls Apart
You know the drill: spoilers are ahead so don't read if you haven't yet seen last night's episode of The Newsroom, entitled "Red Team III," and plan to at some point. Finally, the episode of The Newsroom I've been waiting for, one that comes very close to reminding us all ...read more
"Newsroom" Notes: The End Is Near (and Greenwald Is There)
Once again I realize this is coming probably a day later than it should, but between the various projects I have weighing down my desk and the constant care of my little kid this is how it is for the next couple of weeks. Like last time around, I'm just going to give myself ...read more
"Newsroom" Notes: Well, I Guess It's Just Us Now
I realize this is coming in a little late this week, mostly because I had an incredibly difficult family funeral to attend over the weekend and needed to take the day yesterday to just spend some time with my young daughter. But I guess I can chalk the delay up to posting the ...read more
Newsroom Notes: Why Greenwald Needs a "Red Team"
A couple of quick thoughts about last night's episode of The Newsroom from a news production perspective (obviously spoilers abound and none of this will make any sense if you haven't yet seen the episode, entitled "Unintended Consequences"): First off, overall it seems like ...read more
The Friday Morning Banter: Scientology, The Newsroom, and the Heroic Ed Snowden
This morning's roundup of the stories you may as well be reading rather than doing actual work. 1. Cult Status Last year my girlfriend and I were sitting outside a little place on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood grabbing brunch when a guy who we assumed just happened to be ...read more
You Want Bulls**t? Talk To a General, You Want Reality? Talk To a Grunt
There are a lot of things HBO's The Newsroom gets right about national TV news production. It's rare that one show does all of its own research and general digging for facts, as the fictional "Newsnight" seems to do, since you have to keep in mind that you've got the ...read more
The Silent Treatment
By Chez Pazienza: (Glenn Greenwald Honorary Update Below) Well, it was nice while it lasted. I was allowed all of about 24-hours of magnanimity and good will toward CNN before something happened to kind of blow it all to hell. You'll remember that when we last left your humble ...read more
CNN Can Be the Real "Newsroom"
By Chez Pazienza: A while back, I wrote a column for this site that pondered whether Aaron Sorkin's HBO series The Newsroom had the potential to actually change TV news for the better. While certainly not perfect, or occasionally even all that great, the show presents a ...read more
The Pipe-Dreamy Idealism of "The Newsroom"
By Chez Pazienza: Like just about anybody who's spent a good portion of his or her career in the TV news industry, I watched Aaron Sorkin's new show, The Newsroom, on HBO a couple of nights ago. I did this because, like anybody who's spent a good portion of his or her career ...read more