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“The Newsroom” recap: The Blackout, Part One: Tragedy Porn
Channel Guide MagazineBy Matthew Grimm In case you haven’t been following Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom, here’s some backstory: America put itself in the hands of corporate charlatans who lied a lot about everything to justify sociopathic behavior, and enough... -
Casey Anthony: ‘The Newsroom’ tackles ‘psychotic cocktail waitress’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe staff of “The Newsroom,” HBO's drama about a cable news program, didn't want to touch the Casey Anthony story in Sunday's episode. Anthony was described as “this psychotic cocktail waitress.” But top news executive Charlie (Sam... -
Sigourney Weaver, Roseanne battle for Sunday viewers
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe 10 p.m. Sunday slot offers a lot of intriguing choices. The Closing Ceremony of the Summer Olympics will be airing on NBC. Then there are all the dramas: AMC's “Breaking Bad,” possibly the best show going these days. Lifetime's beloved &#... -
HBO’s “The Newsroom” Episode 7 recap: “5/1″
Channel Guide MagazineEp. 7: Preview By Matthew Grimm Some disclosure before I recap Episode 7 of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom: I had lived in Brooklyn, NY, for 12 years as of Sept. 11, 2001, lived under the plume, share with most New Yorkers a disinclination to gab overly... -
Casey Anthony: ‘The Newsroom’ turns to the trial
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelWe knew Aaron Sorkin would get around to the Casey Anthony saga on “The Newsroom.” A preview Sunday night of the HBO drama showed the characters discussing whether and how much time to devote to the Anthony trial. A friend speculates: “... -
“The Newsroom” Episode 6 recap: “Bullies”
Channel Guide MagazineBy Matthew Grimm OK, I was wrong last week. Not wrong about the creeping patriarchal self-image Aaron Sorkin is constructing in HBO’s The Newsroom, so patriarchal that last week’s homage to the movie Rudy suggests a Sorkin remake would... -
Brian Ross' brain cramp
Jonah GoldbergIf ABC News does fire Brian Ross, he could always find a job working for Aaron Sorkin. Ross, a veteran investigative reporter for ABC News, blew it Friday morning when he suggested that the Aurora, Colo., shooting suspect, James Holmes, might be...Tags: Tea Party Movement, George Stephanopoulos, Fox News Channel (tv network), ABC (tv network), Jared Lee Loughner
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“The Newsroom” Episode 5 recap: The Glass(-Steagall) Ceiling
Channel Guide MagazineBy Matthew Grimm I found out Olivia Munn’s character’s name (Sloan) on this episode of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom. MacKenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer), producer of a news-show-that-tells-the-truth™ and ex of that show’s once-... -
ABC's Brian Ross and a press that disregards reputations of those it covers
The Baltimore SunJournalistic mistakes are easy to make in the immediate wake of events like the horrific shootings last week in a movie theater in Colorado. Bits and bites of information explode across myriad media. Meanwhile, revulsion at the violence mixes with...Tags: NPR, Tea Party Movement, Journalism, Arts and Culture, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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“The Newsroom” Episode 4 recap: Love, Gun
Channel Guide MagazineBy Matthew Grimm Kathryn Hahn popped up on Episode 4 of The Newsroom, playing a rambunctious, randy, pistol-packing date of curmudgeonly hero Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels). McAvoy, you’ll recall, is a conservative TV anchorman who, in midlife pique,... -
Small Wonders: Hopeful, defeated at the same time
I'm tired. So very tired. You could say I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. But I won't be beckoning you to your windows to curse the world. I don’t know what good that would do anyway. Some months ago, I told myself I was going...Tags: Tom Cruise, Justin Bieber, Katie Holmes, Jeff Daniels, Same-Sex Marriage
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HBO’s “The Newsroom” provides enough Sorkinisms but needs more darkness
Channel Guide MagazineBy Matthew Grimm I want to like Aaron Sorkin’s latest exercise in being America’s conscience. I want to like The Newsroom because Emily Mortimer’s eyes melt my soul and because, in an age where Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have become...
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Jul 25, 2012
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Jul 23, 2012
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Jul 21, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jul 17, 2012
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Jul 14, 2012
|Story| Glendale News Press
Jul 13, 2012
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