HBO’s Newsroom and RTAmerica: The show in current affairs
We often lose ourselves in the media spin; the spectacle of it all. The idea that the news was a service providing information to the public, so they could make informed decisions(even if that was true if only for a few brief moments)has been replaced by a big top of spinning intro scenes and generic notes,strung into a tune. I find myself having to take breaks from it,to remind myself of the real and concrete around me. When the words literally and figuratively, were declared interchangeable by the Oxford English Dictionary, everyone blamed the flaws of our education system, but no one considered that it was just a symptom of living in an ever increasingly virtual world. The blurring of those worlds happens on line and in our minds, and so our language blurred too. HBO’s Newsroom written by legendary screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, shows Sorkin being the best at what he does, taking complex social and political ideas and wrapping them up in interesting characters, who s