3.5/5 After carefully canvassing the metacritic list of reviews it has come to my attention that critics generally commend Aaron Sorkin’s effort to portray well thought out transcendent substance in a fictional drama. Yet there is a general consensus that outside of its thoughtful intent The Newsroom falls short on a many levels. As it … Continue reading
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The Mental Emporium of the Handsome Brown Boy
Neal Sampat Dev Patel, the actor who Plays Neal Sampat, has described Neal during an interview with Elle UK as “…the new age of news casting.” From temporary beginnings – as he was intended to appear only briefly as a comic relief in the first episode of the season – to the frets of … Continue reading
Indictment of the Common Intellect
I once remember hearing someone say that we would indefinitely have a cure for cancer if the majority of our esoterically shrewd intellectual minds did not sell their souls to go work for the financial services industry. This contention is most certainly not Charles Ferguson’s thesis for his directorial effort “Inside Job” but the film … Continue reading
Confrontation On-Air
The central issue of The Daily Show interview is informative news bracket like CNBC disguising their back strip loads of defecation as vital and transparent realizations of the financial market. Jim Cramer willingly succumbed to Jon Stewart’s chastising. It leads me to believe that Cramer is utterly docile and often vacillated depending on any firmly … Continue reading
“I’m Will McAvoy-Murrow, Good Night and Good Luck”
I could justifiably propose that Will McAvoy is a poorly constructed facsimile of Edward R. Murrow. Where Murrow’s intent is to serve the good of the people, McAvoy’s intent is perceived to serve the good of himself. If evidence is withstanding then the latter assertion is evident in both news anchor’s manner of delivery. Murrow … Continue reading
Bleeding Ulcers from the Greater Fool or the Distilled Art of Evoking Emotion
3/5 Bryan Brenner wrote in his cover story for New York Magazine in regards to Will McAvoy, “He looks ridiculous doing what he thinks passes as a Murrow impersonation.” Brenner is absolutely right in his criticisms about Will’s antiquated and pompous journalistic style. He terms Will “The Greater Fool” for believing that his boisterous manner … Continue reading
Inadvertent Antagonists & Mock Debates
“Will doesn’t care about ratings because of the money; he cares about it because the audience makes him feel less lonely.” In “Blackout Part 2: Mock Debate” instead of having one of the immediate antagonist call Will McAvoy out on his drivel, say the Lansings, Sorkin decided to adequately design this assignment for a newsmagazine … Continue reading
The Short Attention Span Theater or Hacker in Power
In “The Blackout Part 1” the plot depicts a resurgence of the initial moral conflict once mastered in the narrative of the first episode. We are reacquainted with the very real moral conflict of reporting imperatively informative news over soaring ratings induced entertainment reporting that will increase viewers and sustain advertiser business. Only this time … Continue reading
Trail of Tears
I confessed in a previous blog that this blog project is not my first time viewing The Newsroom. It has been over a year since I have last seen the series and over the span of that lengthy interval the one episode I remember is episode 5 “5/1.” When I first saw the episode I … Continue reading
Blackness & Gayness: A “The Newsroom” Related Tangent
On the subject of fictional political aide to Rick Santorum, Sutton Wall: Why is being BOTH Black and Gay considered a feat? “YOU WILL NOT INTERRUPT ME AGAIN SIR!” Why are people so emphatic when coupling the two aforementioned innate human qualities? Both existential realities are spoken about as if they are congenital ailments. I’ve … Continue reading
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