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#602655 - 09/17/13 04:46 PM Re: Newsroom Marathon [Re: Celandine]
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LOL.
Something.
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#602757 - 09/19/13 06:21 AM Re: Newsroom Marathon [Re: NucleusG4]
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All this talk here and with a friend of mine about how good Newsroom is has inspired me. I got on wiki and got refreshed on the 3 episodes I watched and the started watching from there. Have watched 5 eps of the first season. The next episode is supposed to have the Fukushima Daiichi/Tsunami story in there. Looking forward to that.
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#602759 - 09/19/13 11:08 AM Re: Newsroom Marathon [Re: lanovami]
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I find no profound revelations in watching it,
it's still just a soap opera played out against
a background of yesterday's news... if anything
I'm fascinated by the inner workings of how it's
put together.. the same way I never get tired of
peering into my "skeletonised" pocket watch just
to see the "clock-works" movement do it's thing.

Speaking of which... do you know a watchmaker?
...as in someone who still maintains the ability to
take apart, clean, replace worn parts and restore
a mechanical watch to it's proper working order?
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#602760 - 09/19/13 11:14 AM Re: Newsroom Marathon [Re: Celandine]
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I know what you mean. I do hope that people who like good drama but also believe all the Tea Party claptrap etc. get at least a different perspective when they watch it. Maybe wishful thinking.

I actually get annoyed when the dialog is just too snappy and well-timed and perfect. The real world is nothing like that. It's what we all would have said if we'd had 3 minutes to think about it first. This is not the first show to do this - Sorkin's West Wing was the same animal and there are other examples.
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#602761 - 09/19/13 11:20 AM Re: Newsroom Marathon [Re: lanovami]
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yeah...
...shoulda' coulda', woulda'...
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#602762 - 09/19/13 11:34 AM Re: Newsroom Marathon [Re: lanovami]
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I really related to a scene where Will is trying dating and it turns out his date loves all the tabloid stuff. He can't hide his boredom. I feel the same way. I have American (and even other nationalities, though not Japanese) friends over here that love all that Jersey Shore et al stuff. I am happy to say I don't have the slightest clue what it is all about, and am proud to say so.

I had heard the name Kardassian (spell?) - which I always thought was the name of a Star Trek alien race - and assumed she, they, it whatever was one of the Jersey Shore people. No, I was told, they are unconnected. Ignorance is bliss.
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#602764 - 09/19/13 11:54 AM Re: Newsroom Marathon [Re: Celandine]
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I find no profound revelations in watching it,
it's still just a soap opera played out against
a background of yesterday's news...


Exactly.
If it was made-up "current" news people would bitch that it was nothing like what was going on in reality.
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#602771 - 09/19/13 01:05 PM Re: Newsroom Marathon [Re: NucleusG4]
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Yeah, it's genius I think that they use recent but past news events so they can be dead on about things, but still keep it fresh. It also makes the cast look clever about getting things right - like not jumping the gun and reporting Gabrielle Giffords was killed in the shooting in Arizona.
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#602780 - 09/19/13 02:15 PM Re: Newsroom Marathon [Re: lanovami]
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I watch it but it irritates the crap out of me.

What you said about the "snappy" dialogue nailed it.

Also their ability to take old news, edit the crap out of it, putting in their own players, to make it like they wished it were. And always getting in subtle and not subtle slams to conservatives and Republicans while making the other side look great.

They were much better in that department this year than last but thought it funny that on the final episode they just had to jump in on it.

Like the idea that a very liberal news show , on election night, would have a conservative analyst but no liberal counterpart as their panel. That this analyst was portrayed as over the top on her comments . Then in the last moments have her get in it with Will, who has said he is Republican (but certainly doesnt act like it) who then gives a diatribe about the evils of his own party.

But then last season on the final episode, he listed these evils on a white board so the viewers could get a good look at them. Sigh.

But, I'm sure glad Will and Mac got their feelings out for each other . Man I was biting my nails out all season on this.

On a positive note. I would like to hear more details of Maggie's and Carl ( I think that's his name) situation in Africa that precipitated in her changing her hair this sounds interesting

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#602781 - 09/19/13 02:51 PM Re: Newsroom Marathon [Re: MrB]
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Though I like the show, he doesn't seem a very conservative conservative. He's not even a balanced conservative, or a centrist from what I have seen.
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