HBO’s “The Newsroom” Wets The American Appetite For The Truth [VIDEO]

Recently I have been glued to the first season of HBO's "The Newsroom", which is funny in that I loath the mainstream media. After my brother spent 3 tours in Iraq I pretty much stopped watching any news feed of any kind because I was afraid that I may see him dead on the side of a road during primetime. Bored one night and nothing on TV I decided to watch an episode of HBO's Original Series "The Newsroom" and I have been a fan ever since.

From the mind of Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing and screenwriter of The Social Network and Moneyball,  comes The Newsroom,  a behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor (played by Jeff Daniels), his new executive producer (Emily Mortimer), the newsroom staff (John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel) and their boss (Sam Waterston), the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.

The personal drama aside, the show presents the news of today in a no nonsense factual way that I cannot get enough of. "The Newsroom" has rekindled my excitement about the happenings of our world again, but there is a problem. I cannot find a news cast anywhere on television that is doing what the writers at HBO are doing. Telling the absolute and sometimes brutal truth and letting the viewer decide for themselves.

Edward R  Murrow said "No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his
accomplices." We seem to be controlled or terrorized by fear these days, and mainstream media serves it up by the troughloads for us to lap up. True, if you look at the headlines from around the world on any one day it is hard not to be scared. But that is the reality of the world we live in. Either get in the game and accept the facts or sit on the bench and watch "Here Comes Honey BooBoo"! "Tabloidish" stories about "Casey Anthony" and "Anthony Weiner's" wiener take president over the "real" news of the day, and I for one am disgusted with it all. It is not news, it is a reality show wrapped in a news broadcast format.

Where can a person go to get the whole brutal truth about "Our" America? Where can a person go to get the news without that cooperate slant of ad dollars and the chase of ratings? I applaud HBO and the writers of one of the best shows on TV. Yes I realize that "The Newsroom" is a TV drama, but at the core of the show is an idea that wets the appetite of forward thinking Americans for the truth. The thought that I need to be spoon-fed the news at a rate I can handle it is absurd. I'm a big boy and I deserve the facts and nothing else. Inform me, don't entertain me. I have HBO for that.