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The billboards are everywhere, the press tour's been intense and the money has loomed large for HBO's new Aaron Sorkin drama, "The Newsroom." But it looks like the blitz may not work out: Everyone hates it. The show stars Jeff Daniels as a Keith Olbermann-esque TV presenter whose impromptu soliloquy on the state of modern America at a Northwestern University journalism conference "goes viral" and turns his nightly news program into a renegade bastion of take-no-prisoners commentary. Vanity Fair has speculated that the show's budget was in the neighborhood of $100 million. (HBO does not release formal production costs.) The first and arguably most authoritative torpedo was launched by The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum, who said the show was "...(read more)
... The billboards are everywhere, the press tour's been intense and the money has loomed large for HBO's new Aaron Sorkin drama, "The Newsroom." But it looks like the blitz may not work out: Everyone hates it. The show stars Jeff Daniels ...
... as a Keith Olbermann-esque TV presenter whose impromptu soliloquy on the state of modern America at a Northwestern University journalism conference "goes viral" and turns his nightly news program into a renegade bastion of take-no-prisoners commentar ...
... show is exactly the same as a terrible David Kelley show, only with more walking." ABC Senior White House Correspondent even chimed in, writing in The New Republic that the show "demonstrates [Sorkin's] confusion about what ails journalism," and th ...
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