The Differences Between The Newsroom And An Actual Newsroom

I live in an actual newsroom. I get what you mean.

Aside from the Wikipedia comment I can’t disagree more with this post. I’m not sure what newsroom you’ve been in… but in the 10 or so I have worked in (except for the religious/fanatic anchor in market 125) I’d say “The Newsroom” is pretty accurate.

Solid. We drank a LOT when I was in a newsroom. Do they do that on the show? I mean….

“On Newsroom, it’s pretty clear that everyone involved is a liberal” everyone ?… ;)

I worked in a local newsroom for two years, and I will say this list is dead on. However, in the local newsroom I worked in, there was definitely talk about sex (affairs, inter-dating, etc.). Also, in a local newsroom, no one gives a rat’s ass about a well-informed electorate.. no one. “Oh look, a grass fire, let’s cover that for the entire hour.”

You’re just now realizing that the dramatic arts are not about work but about relationships? Why don’t you do this comparison to newsrooms and The Mary Tyler Moore Show? Because it woud be obvious that a real newsroom isn’t joke to a laugh track and you would have given up such a comparison before you started. Hamlet wasn’t a Danish war documentary btw.

Reblogged this on Tallulah Bankhead and commented:
And that’s why I can’t get into the show!

So this is why I got so many strange looks when I followed that guy into his job at the news station with a fresh bag of popcorn…

Calm down people, it’s just a TV show

So, you think fat people are unattractive and Keith Olbermann is a blustering jerk. Nice way to convince me anything else you say is worth reading, Sparky!

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the most accurate thing I saw in The Newsroom was the AP taking off to run to the control room without disconnecting her headset :)

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