“This season explores a lot of themes,” intones the greatest TV writer of our time promisingly at the beginning of the trailer for the final season of “The Newsroom.” Are you ready for the thorny and original issues with which this modern-day political bard has chosen to wrestle?
“When does a whistleblower become a criminal?”
“When does protecting your source become being an accomplice?”
Surely none of us have contemplated these conundrums ever before. The virtuous Will McAvoy, however, serves to stretch our moral imaginations in both capacities as he serves as the conduit for a whistleblower and heroic teller of truth and protector of the leaker.
Oh, but that’s not all! Next, the Network must decide, in these modern times, how to navigate a drive to perform on social media while preserving its journalistic ethics. I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve been waiting with bated breath for a 2009 panel on media at the Newseum, offered by Brookings and Center for American Progress fellows, while people in bad suits munch on something slightly below a mediocre Hampton Inn continental breakfast to be committed to film. The slick production values will add polish and, improbably, even more self-congratulation to such a scenario. Also, Olivia Munn. Prepare to be enlightened.
Thrill to the strains of a barely tweaked proxy for the Edward Snowden case. They’re all gonna miss each other, and this whole thing has been deeply meaningful for them. Who knew how gratifying reliving the major current events of the day 18 months behind their actual relevance could be? It’s like having access to a kind of crappy time machine with far fewer gigawatts than it would need to operate optimally. Enjoy the final season of “The Newsroom.”
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