The Newsroom

#28
#28
Episode 3 is in the books, and Sorkin has so far only gone after the right leaning fringe. This show will lose a lot of credibility if they only attack the idiocy on the right. I can find that on a million other channels.

Also, the chick in the Don-Jim love triangle is probably the most annoying person I've ever seen in my life. She is borderline unwatchable.
 
#30
#30
AJeray4TN said:
Episode 3 is in the books, and Sorkin has so far only gone after the right leaning fringe. This show will lose a lot of credibility if they only attack the idiocy on the right. I can find that on a million other channels.

Also, the chick in the Don-Jim love triangle is probably the most annoying person I've ever seen in my life. She is borderline unwatchable.
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Ironically enough she's one of the more realistic personality types that you find in a newsroom.
 
#31
#31
_vol said:
Ironically enough she's one of the more realistic personality types that you find in a newsroom.
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I want to stab her. She went from shy, quiet little wallflower, to nutzo psychopath from episode #1 to episode #2. It was a startling change, and seemed very unbelievable.
 
#32
#32
AJeray4TN said:
I want to stab her. She went from shy, quiet little wallflower, to nutzo psychopath from episode #1 to episode #2. It was a startling change, and seemed very unbelievable.
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I have been in a newsroom similar to the one in the show during three times of massive news events. Everyone starts acting like that. I hated it. I hear ya.
 
#33
#33
Just watched episodes 1 and 2 last night. I like the characters and character interaction for the most part. Got 3 and 4 queued up in the DVR for later in the week.

I can see this show appealing to small audience and not lasting very long.
 
#35
#35
Terry Crews has been solid

"There's nothing I can do about being big and black at the same time."
 
#39
#39
Been watching this show lately. I have to say, I quite enjoy it a lot. The writing is good, but I find myself hating or disliking a lot of the characters on the show for some reason, with the notable exception of Charlie.
 
#40
#40
milohimself said:
Terry Crews has been solid

"There's nothing I can do about being big and black at the same time."
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He's been really good for humor with his interactions with Daniels but I think the single best reaction of the most recent episode was the scene where Will tells him what has happened but then lets him tell the cops. I was actually a little pissed that they then had the actual reveal off camera.
 
#41
#41
I can't take it. I took a few weeks off, and tried to give it another chance but it just ain't happening. I was hoping they'd show more balance in their politics, but it's getting more and more imbalanced. I just watched the episode about Egypt and Wisconsin. If anybody wants to know the real story about Glass-Steagall:

Although we’ve heard a great deal about how “deregulation” caused the financial crisis, specific cases of repealed legislation that would have prevented it are few and far between. The one some progressives seem to have settled on is the “repeal” of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which separated commercial from investment banking. The “repeal” involved only one provision of the Act, the one preventing the same holding company from controlling both a commercial bank and an investment bank.

When we recall that stand-alone institutions, both commercial and investment, also failed during the crisis, and that all of them acquired mortgage-backed securities (which they had always been allowed to do, by the way), the Glass-Steagall “repeal” looks more and more like a red herring that appeals to people whose belief system requires them to find some way a Fed-fueled bubble could have been stopped had the right regulatory structure been in place.

Because Glass-Steagall was passed during the Depression, it is assumed that it was addressing a pressing need of the time. In fact, the lack of government-enforced division between commercial and investment banking had precisely zero to do with bank problems during the Great Depression. The 9,000 bank failures during the early 1930s had far more to do with the damage done by government regulation – namely, the unit-banking laws that made it difficult for banks to diversify their portfolios (by limiting them to a single office and making branching illegal) – than with a lack of regulation. These were small banks, not the behemoths for which Glass-Steagall would have been relevant. Canada had none of these stifling regulations, and had zero bank failures.
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‘Repeal’ of Glass-Steagall Irrelevant to Financial*Crisis by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
 
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#42
#42
n_huffhines said:
I can't take it. I took a few weeks off, and tried to give it another chance but it just ain't happening. I was hoping they'd show more balance in their politics, but it's getting more and more imbalanced. I just watched the episode about Egypt and Wisconsin. If anybody wants to know the real story about Glass-Steagall:



‘Repeal’ of Glass-Steagall Irrelevant to Financial*Crisis by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
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I guess since I'm more of a lefty politically, I just don't really notice all that much. Granted, the show's editorials and other things slant left, but I've found that to be secondary compared to the other storylines.
 
#44
#44
Uh, yeah. He funds Cato (which has been a messy situation recently for him). What's new? He also sponsors Nova.

The point was more a treatise against the notion of the Tea Party's "grass roots" organization, which started off that way but eventually became co-opted by the same special interests that have been pulling the GOP's strings for years, including one David Koch. Yes, the show singles him out unfairly, but I don't view it as inaccurate. He's just the favorite "boogeyman" name on the left.
 
#45
#45
I'll have to read up on Cato. I don't know what you're referring to, but I think they have a pretty good reputation from what I know.
 
#47
#47
Reason is my favorite think tank. I enjoy Cato, but I usually only follow it indirectly.
 
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