The Newsroom

[Quality Start Machine]

As far as I can tell, this show only exists to give my Liberal brethren something to copy and paste into their Facebook feeds when they run out of Rachel Maddow soundbites.

[Saul Goodman]

I saw some Twathead tweet that this is one of the two best shows on television. I didn't even know how to start mocking him. I don't get why anyone wants to watch Aaron Sorkin Explains The News.

[Gilgamesh]

I saw some Twathead tweet that this is one of the two best shows on television. I didn't even know how to start mocking him. I don't get why anyone wants to watch Aaron Sorkin Explains The NewsShows You How Real Journalists Should Ask Questions About Stories Two Years After The Fact.

Better'd.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

As far as I can tell, this show only exists to give my Liberal brethren something to copy and paste into their Facebook feeds when they run out of Rachel Maddow soundbites.

Maybe they should rename the show "TIME TO POST".

[Quality Start Machine]

As far as I can tell, this show only exists to give my Liberal brethren something to copy and paste into their Facebook feeds when they run out of Rachel Maddow soundbites.

Maybe they should rename the show "TIME TO POST".

Only if they let me write it.

Which would improve it be many degrees of magnitude.

[morpheus]

As far as I can tell, this show only exists to give my Liberal brethren something to copy and paste into their Facebook feeds when they run out of Rachel Maddow soundbites.

Maybe they should rename the show "TIME TO POST".

Only if they let me write it.

Which would improve it be many degrees of magnitude.

Then it would just be Jeff Daniels hijacking a news show to read "Reasons Why I Love You" and "The Diarrhea Monologues" live on the air.

[Slaky]

I don't know why anyone watches this show unless it's a hate watch which I'm fully behind.

[ChuckD]

I don't know why anyone watches this show unless it's a hate watch which I'm fully behind.

So brave.

[Yeti]

I've continued hatewatching it, and last night.... I admit it, I didn't hate it. (most of it, that is)

[CBStew]

I've continued hatewatching it, and last night.... I admit it, I didn't hate it. (most of it, that is)

I hate it so much I haven't missed a single minute of any episode. 

[ChuckD]

I like it. Sorkin's JOing from TV Land on to the inside of the TV screen. I'm JOing in my living room on to the outside of the TV screen. Just one big liberal TV screen bukkake showdown.

But seriously, I do like it.

[Yeti]

My main complaint from the last episode is that they were all like "Yea, we couldn't get it right on Benghazi because we were too distracted in cleaning up our fuckup."

[Internet Apex]

I hated the show so much after about 45 minutes that I've refused to even consider watching it again. But it does occur to me that one could get more actual news in one hour (albeit a couple years later) from this show than in 24 hours of any of the major news channels. It might inspire people to think differently about the issues. Is that happening? Or is this the entirely pompous jerkoff that I suspected it was?

What I'm saying is, I may go back and give this another chance if there's value in the subject matter.

What sayeth? 

[CBStew]

In the most recent episode I was dumbfounded by the revelation that the TV News show paid millions to the reporter who sued for wrongful termination after he admitted that he doctored an interview tape to support the thesis of the story that he produced.  The theory for settling with him, as best I could understand it, was that yes, he manufactured evidence, but there were so many people through whom he had to vet the lie, that one of them should have caught the deception, and therefore they had themselves to blame.  I am still scratching my head over that.  He didn't deserve to be fired because they didn't catch him soon enough to stop the publication of his deception?