Wednesday, June 20, 2012

HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’: Aaron Sorkin has an on-air meltdown

HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’: Aaron Sorkin has an on-air meltdown


Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom,” the big new series of the summer that premieres Sunday night on HBO, fails to meet the high expectations that greet it, save one: It is crammed with incessant jibber-jabber.

Characters never stop speechifying to one another, replacing believable dialogue with that unmistakably Sorkinesque logorrhea of righteous self-importance. It’s a puppet show with Sorkin as the only hand, expressing his displeasure with the tenor of public discourse. (Which everyone knows has reached an unctuous low.) “The Newsroom” is principally concerned with how American society has been ruined by the blaring insipidity of our 24-7 media culture. The theme song swells with a collage of images of the founding fathers of television news, but if Edward R. Murrow is watching, I suspect he’s chuckling in his grave rather than spinning in it. (Fun fact: Murrow was cremated.)


TONY DIGIROLAMO- HEY HBO, IT'S NOT TV! SORKIN DOING AN HBO FILM ABOUT A 24/7 TV NEWS SHOW WITH A "STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE CABLE NEWS NETWORK WITH A STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE ANCHOR ... SORKIN TRYING DO FAIR AND BALANCED?
HE CAN'T DO THAT ... HE WON'T DO THAT!
"Sorkinesque logorrhea of righteous self-importance"... I like that, a narcissist!

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