the newsroom

I just spent the better part of the past hour looking at reviews for the Aaron Sorkins new TV Series, the Newsroom. I was hooked onto the series after HBO freely released their pilot episode on Youtube, and have been watching week by week ever since.

I can't help but notice the disparity in ratings between critic and user reviews.

The attacks don't seem to be able the show's actual message, "speaking truth to stupid," but just attacks on characters, saying the women are too stereotypical. Real newsrooms don't have these glory speeches. Basically, that it's bad television and will die quickly.

Yet, it thrives. The most recent episode is 6th most seeded in the TV shows category for PirateBay.

I'm just confused. I think that someone who had the passion to go into the field of journalism would be thrilled behind the idea of covering actually significant stories rather than focusing in on stories that simply gather a lot of hype (see Casey Anthony). Yet these journalists tear the show apart.

Except Dan Rather praised the show.