The first season of Aaron Sorkin's HBO drama "The Newsroom" was solid with viewers (averaging 7.1 million a week) and divisive with critics, maddening many with its didactic tendencies, hindsight-enabled righting of the poor journalistic practices surrounding real news stories and writing of its female characters. The series returns for a second season on July 14th, and to prepare for the return of the "News Night" crew, The Hollywood Reporter's Lacey Rose has a cover story in which she pays a visit to the "West Wing" creator's second season set. There are plenty of interesting details, including the tidbit that Sorkin has MSNBC's Chris Matthews, former Bush adviser Mark McKinnon and reporter Kaj Larsen on board as paid consultants, and the fact that he shot two episodes of the new season before asking the network if he could go back and start over. But the article also contains quotes from Sorkin,...
- 6/19/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
"The Daily Show's" John Oliver, the acerbic Englishman that produces many of the show's satirical special reports, has made a grim discovery: Investigative journalism is all but dead in the United States. In his segment Monday night, Oliver interviewed former CNN correspondent Kaj Larsen, whose reports from far-flung countries like Somalia and Indonesia were axed from the ailing network's budget when it closed its investigative documentary department last March. "CNN, the worldwide leader in news, has eliminated its entire investigative news department," the perpetually incredulous Oliver said incredulously. "CNN is finally raising itself...
- 1/15/2013
- by Alexander C. Kaufman
- The Wrap
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