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The Newsroom Season 1

'The Newsroom' Vs. Its Biggest Problem: Will McAvoy

Maureen Ryan | Posted 08.02.2012 | TV
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Maureen Ryan

If only I was watching the show Aaron Sorkin thinks he's making. The show that Sorkin thinks is "reaching high" and full of "idealistic" aspirations is dismissive of anyone who isn't a white heterosexual male.

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'The Newsroom's' Female Trouble

Maureen Ryan | Posted 07.02.2012 | TV
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Maureen Ryan

It's hard to know what's most infuriating: that MacKenzie is written as though she hasn't even heard of a war zone or that she's presented as alternately hysterical and incompetent.

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