Ultimately, the show is the worst possible vehicle for promulgating the values and beliefs that the core characters profess. With shrill, self-righteous friends like these, journalism doesn’t need enemies.

(via Maureen Ryan: ‘The Newsroom’ Review: Aaron Sorkin’s New HBO Show Gets Almost Everything Wrong)

Everything I was afraid of. Shit.

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   Damn, I was looking forward to this show.

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   Yeah, early word is that it’s all downhill after the first episode. I was really looking forward to a good HBO show with...

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   Urgh I was looking fwd to this too

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    I wish Sorkin would get over himself. He is more than capable of writing wholly entertaining stuff when he isn’t...

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    Oh noes. Say it ain’t so.

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