{"id":516,"date":"2012-08-29T20:30:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariannatorgovnick.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2013-02-16T18:31:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T18:31:52","slug":"wanting-to-say-more-about-newsroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.jackmakesthings.com\/tor\/wanting-to-say-more-about-newsroom\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO&#8217;s NEWSROOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWSROOM made the Koch brothers and potential conflicts of interest around the Citizens United case key plot points this season:\u00a0 no other popular television show has done nearly so much for so many.\u00a0 Along the way, the show exposed the faux-populism of the Tea Party, an institution underwritten\u2014like so many conservative interests\u2014by big oil.\u00a0 Libel laws existing in this country, what the show said could have been the cause for litigation; it was not.\u00a0 On the show, the star newscaster played by Jeff Daniels has been threatened by his network&#8217;s head who wants to court big money interests, not antagonize them.\u00a0 Is it possible that the (to me) surprising neglect of this show had similar causes?<\/p>\n<p>The show is not perfect:\u00a0 no way.\u00a0 Romantic plots seem overdone at times, with grown-up characters unable to say what they&#8217;re feeling\u2014as grown-up people have been known to do, but more so.\u00a0 The show brilliantly deploys itself against recently remembered history and some of the events, like the killing of bin Laden, felt wrong on the pulses.\u00a0 Aaron Sorkin&#8217;s dialogue can cloy. But episode for episode, this show served a truly educational function.\u00a0 Did some viewers think that NEWSROOM made up the Koch brothers?\u00a0 the devastating effects of Citizens United?\u00a0 the irresponsible stalemates in Congress?\u00a0 That&#8217;s possible.\u00a0 But &#8220;made up&#8221;?\u00a0 I will end informally by saying:\u00a0 if only!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mariannatorgovnick.com\/?attachment_id=521\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-521\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-521 aligncenter\" title=\"newsroom-jeff-daniels-aaron-sorkin-slice\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.jackmakesthings.com\/tor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/newsroom-jeff-daniels-aaron-sorkin-slice4-300x99.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWSROOM made the Koch brothers and potential conflicts of interest around the Citizens United case key plot points this season:\u00a0 no other popular television show has done nearly so much for so many.\u00a0 Along the way, the show exposed the faux-populism of the Tea Party, an institution underwritten\u2014like so many conservative interests\u2014by big oil.\u00a0 Libel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[22,35,41,50,51,74,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.jackmakesthings.com\/tor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.jackmakesthings.com\/tor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.jackmakesthings.com\/tor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.jackmakesthings.com\/tor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.jackmakesthings.com\/tor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dev.jackmakesthings.com\/tor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"http:\/\/dev.jackmakesthings.com\/tor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.jackmakesthings.com\/tor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.jackmakesthings.com\/tor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.jackmakesthings.com\/tor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}