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The Newsroom



I just started watching The Newsroom, Like everybody else I got into it by watching the opening scene on youtube. To sum it up: The Newsroom is awesome. Aaron Sorkin is awesome. Jeff Daniels is brilliant and so is Emily Mortimer.

To explain it further: After an outburst which is uncharacteristic of the soft and polite news anchor Will McAvoy in a public forum, the crew of his show "News Night" jump ship. The president of the company takes this opportunity to build what he deems to be "the best damn news program in the world". He orchestrates a scenario which forces Will McAvoy to work with his ex-girlfriend MacKenzie McHale as his Executive Producer. 

The couple are at odds at first but come together and create a new show because of their mutual admiration of the public service "News". They start by offending a lot of people, they call out hypocrisy and they force politicians to speak straight and not give vague answers. They also decide not to pander to audience and they don't cover popular yet entirely not news worthy celebrity cases and "What's trending today?". They don't report what others are saying in social media, they report the news and not rumours and unconfirmed tales. This however also leads to loss of ratings which is not ideal as they are already in trouble for upsetting the politicos who put pressure on their CEO to fire Will McAvoy.

This is the struggle of the few against the many, the tiny but significant truth against the ocean of misinformation and loud rhetoric, the responsibility balanced against the breaking news. The show incorporates a lot of real events and criticise a lot of real politicians that you almost believe that it is real news and this show is some sort of behind the scenes footage.

The writing is incredible, it’s not to snarky, not too witty to be overly comedic and not too high brow to leave out many audiences. I loved it.




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