The Newsroom

[jonesiexxx]

Anyone watching The Newsroom?

I found some parts wildly entertaining. Others made me want to tear my hair out.

Comments

[ponygirl2000]

I've been enjoying reading reviews of The Newsroom, especially by female critics, but no real urge to watch the series. Sorkin can be a wonderful writer - I adored the parts of The Social Network that didn't have women onscreen, and so much of West Wing - but he's in love with the idea of the Great Man who explains it all to us lesser folk. I don't find his values progressive at all - did you read that interview with him in the Globe & Mail the other week? It was a textbook in how to come across as a sexist, privileged ass.

[jonesiexxx]

I didn't read the interview in the Globe (I don't read the Globe because it's too progressive for me LOL).

You're so right about the Great Man who explains it all. Any individual speech is a tour de force. When you get a bajillion of them, it cheapens the coin and becomes tiresome.

What are female critics saying about it? (I never saw Social Network, btw)

[ponygirl2000]

If you can bear clicking such a socialist link here's the G&M interview. It's actually quite astounding and I can understand why the internet spread it far and wide.

[abrakadabrah]

I can't watch it because of the politics. I "love" the ruse of having a "republican" as the main character, so he can spend all his time criticizing his own side and Sorkin can pretend the show is balanced. Who does he think he is fooling?

There was a progressivereview by Emily Nussbaum in the New Yorker.

[jonesiexxx]

I can't watch it because of the politics. I "love" the ruse of having a "republican" as the main character, so he can spend all his time criticizing his own side and Sorkin can pretend the show is balanced. Who does he think he is fooling?

Srsly. The Sarah Palin mockery was a case in point. Palin's language was indeed cringe-worthy. But her point - that other countries were prepared and extremely able to help with the oil spill clean up, but the President turned down the help because of the Jones Act which was written to protect unions - that was a newsworthy point.

If the show really wanted to be balanced, they would have talked about the scandal of the Jones Act at that point, they would not have shot Palinfish in a(n oil) barrel.

Thanks for the review link.