Farewell Newsroom

Well, The Newsroom gave itself just the kind of send-off we've come to expect: brilliant, touching, touching all kinds of bases including some we didn't know existed, including a great performance of Bobby Bare's "That's How I Got to Memphis," with Will and Jim definitely singing and likely definitely playing guitar (you never know one-hundred percent on television).   But it sure sounded nice, and being in a garage right by Charlie's funeral, it was bound to bring not just a smile but a tear to the eye.

A lot of the show was about Charlie, back in the flesh in the prequel before the very episode of the series, which took up about half of this farewell episode.  The other half is what happens to our team in the aftermath of Charlie's death.

Everyone lands on their feet, some even promoted.  Is that realistic?   I don't know - I've never been part of a news team - but it felt right for this series.   As far as personal relationships go, everyone also landed on their feet, and, given the frustrated love that animated so much of the series until now, these happy endings seemed realistic, too, part of the universe righting the balance in favor of some happiness.

Jim and Maggie will stay together with a long-distance relationship - but not that long-distance, given the proximity of New York and Washington - while Jim's promoted to MacKenzie's job and Maggie may be on her way to the job of her dreams.   Don and Sloan are finally happily together also, with neither getting a promotion.   And Will and MacKenzie are having a baby, as MacKenzie is getting  promoted to Charlie's position.

Too much happiness?  Hey, these characters are entitled to it, not only after all the unrequited love they've endured, but the often gruesome nature of the news they were daily obliged to cover.   And we the audience deserve it, too, as a remembrance of a show the likes of which have never been seen on television before, and not likely to be any time soon, again.


analysis of the first two seasons

See also The Newsroom 3.1: Media on Media ... The Newsroom 3.2: Ethics in High Relief ... The Newsroom 3.3: Journalism at the Barricades ... The Newsroom 3.4: McLuhanesque "Books Are Like the New Art"... The Newsroom 3.5: Penultimate Prescient

And see also The Newsroom Season 2 Debuts on Occupy Wall Street and More ... and (about Trayvon Martin) If Only There Was a Video Recording ... The Newsroom 2.2: The Power of Video ... The Newsroom 2.7: Autopsy of a Bad Decision ... The Newsroom 2.8: The Course of True Love ... The Newsroom Season 2 Finale: Love, Triumph, and Wikipedia

And see also The Newsroom and McLuhan ... The Newsroom and The Hour ...The Newsroom Season 1 Finale: The Lost Voice Mail

 
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The Newsroom 3.5: Penultimate Prescient

A mind-blowing, heart wrenching Newsroom 3.5 tonight.

It was, first of all, prescient, in its treatment of rape on college campuses. The news doesn't change as much we think in a year and a half.   Most of the major stories in our news today - Middle East turmoil, killer diseases, police killing of unarmed African-American men and boys - were sadly happening in June 2013, too.   And so was rape on campus.  But the parallel of the UVA story in our news and what ACN was investigating at Princeton - including the role of the media, social and traditional - was uncanny.  I just put up a blog post about this on Friday.

There was some good news, long desired, in tonight's episode, too.   Maggie and Jim are finally together, and that was a relief to see.   It took way too long.  The course of true love never did run smooth, especially when it involved two idiosyncratic people - but mainly a guy too shy - working in a newsroom no less.

The Will story was a piece of cinematic art all in itself.  He's in jail, supposedly in solitary confinement, except he has having a conversation with a wife beater (played, by the way, by the guy who plays the priest in Gracepoint).  I was suspicious of this all along, because, why would Will be locked up with a violent criminal - in a Fed prison for being held in contempt of court, a white collar crime if ever there was one.  Still, the coda to this little tale, when Will takes down the pix on the wall, and we see what his abusive father looked like, was a rich touch indeed.

The ACNGage story was also very much ripped from today's headlines, in which the tracking of celebrities has taken on a new and disturbing ubiquity in our age of citizen journalism, apps, and smart phones and tablets.  At least one student in the class on "Digital Media and Public Responsibility" I'm just finishing up teaching this term at Fordham did a report on this problem just last week.

And then there's Charlie.   There was no way he could have continued under Pruitt.  And what happened to him tonight was certainly more satisfying to the narrative requirement that he leave than his just quitting.  Even so, it was a sad, traumatic, kick-in-the-gut moment.

Much as fans of The Newsroom, including me, will feel when the show itself ends for good - or, in this case, for no good reason - next week.


analysis of the first two seasons

See also The Newsroom 3.1: Media on Media ... The Newsroom 3.2: Ethics in High Relief ... The Newsroom 3.3: Journalism at the Barricades ... The Newsroom 3.4: McLuhanesque "Books Are Like the New Art"

And see also The Newsroom Season 2 Debuts on Occupy Wall Street and More ... and (about Trayvon Martin) If Only There Was a Video Recording ... The Newsroom 2.2: The Power of Video ... The Newsroom 2.7: Autopsy of a Bad Decision ... The Newsroom 2.8: The Course of True Love ... The Newsroom Season 2 Finale: Love, Triumph, and Wikipedia

And see also The Newsroom and McLuhan ... The Newsroom and The Hour ...The Newsroom Season 1 Finale: The Lost Voice Mail

 
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The Newsroom 3.4: McLuhanesque "Books Are Like the New Art"

The Newsroom 3.4 was especially McLuhanesque tonight, as the guy who wants to buy ACN comments that "books are like the new art," because we like to look at them on a shelf, and do our reading on Kindles.   If printed books are indeed becoming a new kind of art, this would be a great example of Marshall McLuhan's observation that outmoded technologies become art forms.   When I first heard this years ago, the first thing I thought of was the convertible car, which was first invented to keep the driver physically cool, but, with the advent of air conditioning in cars, became stylistically cool for the driver to drive in.  Then I thought about delicatessen - the spices first introduced to extend the shelf life of meat, now used, in an age of refrigeration, because we like the way the spiced meat tastes.  But the Kindle turning the printed book into an art form is an excellent contemporary example.

As for the central story of tonight's episode of The Newsroom, it was customarily good, if a bit overplayed.  Certainly Will being taken away in handcuffs the moment after he and MacKenzie are married was a strong dramatic moment.  But how Will got to be found in contempt of court seems strained to me.  Either he believes in the First Amendment being inviolable or he doesn't.   He says that he does and I believe him.  So why doesn't he mount a more spirited defense - indeed, any defense - when the judge asks him to?   It's a weakness in the plot when the best reason I can think of is the show wants the dramatic tension of his going to jail.

Further, if I'm understanding the AP getting the secret and incriminating files, then what happened in court with Will being held in contempt for not revealing the source is kind of moot anyway, right?   Because, presumably that source will be more discoverable in the documents, and the Feds will go after the AP in any case.

So here's my prediction for the ending - now, sadly, only two episodes away.   Will and MacKenzie will be together, and likely most of the other couples we've come to know and enjoy as well.  But ACN will be taken over, dissolved, or otherwise made unrecognizable, as the inexorable force of money closes the door on our heroic enterprise.   Because, alas, although the First Amendment can and should protect the delivery of the news from government control, it can't protect that delivery from the ravages of money.



analysis of the first two seasons

See also The Newsroom 3.1: Media on Media ... The Newsroom 3.2: Ethics in High Relief ... The Newsroom 3.3: Journalism at the Barricades

And see also The Newsroom Season 2 Debuts on Occupy Wall Street and More ... and (about Trayvon Martin) If Only There Was a Video Recording ... The Newsroom 2.2: The Power of Video ... The Newsroom 2.7: Autopsy of a Bad Decision ... The Newsroom 2.8: The Course of True Love ... The Newsroom Season 2 Finale: Love, Triumph, and Wikipedia

And see also The Newsroom and McLuhan ... The Newsroom and The Hour ...The Newsroom Season 1 Finale: The Lost Voice Mail

 
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The Newsroom 3.3: Journalism at the Barricades

Well, journalism is always at the barricades in The Newsroom, but it was especially and eloquently there in episode 3.3 tonight.

Neil's prosecution by the Feds, with Will stepping in to take the fire - because, as he says, the government would not have the gall to go after so an important news anchor - continues on center stage, with at least two memorable scenes.  One, at the beginning of the episode, features Charlie feigning to break into live coverage of the FBI ransacking ACN's computers, which gets the FBI to back down.   Later, Will gives the DOJ guy a good talking to, including that the DOJ bungled this operation, when the DOJ tries to threaten the wrong people - in this case, Will and company.

But, before the episode ends, Will gets served with a subpoena, making him wonder, in classic Newsroom ironic iconic style, if he maybe he's not that important after all.

Meanwhile, on a commercial rather than governmental plane, we get a great conversation between Jim and Hallie, over Jim's concern about Hallie taking a job with an online site that pays her incentives - aka "bonuses," as Hallie insists - for number of page views her stories generate.   Hallie fires back that every major news person from Edward R. Murrow to Will McAvoy got or get salaries based on the number of people who see their stories - aka viewers and ratings in television speak - so what's really the difference between her and them.?  And you know what?  Score one for Hallie and commercialism.   She's completely right that money makes the world go round, including the world of journalism (and, I might add, the academic world, too - professors are well paid).

Speaking of professors, we get a nice scene with Maggie and her Fordham law professor with a speciality in ethics.    But the EPA guy spouts insane overkill about the environment in Will's interview, and it wasn't clear to me what purpose he or this whole thread is serving.

Great episode, great series, let's hear it indeed for the First Amendment, Mr. DOJ guy.

analysis of the first two seasons

See also The Newsroom 3.1: Media on Media ... The Newsroom 3.2: Ethics in High Relief

And see also The Newsroom Season 2 Debuts on Occupy Wall Street and More ... and (about Trayvon Martin) If Only There Was a Video Recording ... The Newsroom 2.2: The Power of Video ... The Newsroom 2.7: Autopsy of a Bad Decision ... The Newsroom 2.8: The Course of True Love ... The Newsroom Season 2 Finale: Love, Triumph, and Wikipedia

And see also The Newsroom and McLuhan ... The Newsroom and The Hour ...The Newsroom Season 1 Finale: The Lost Voice Mail



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The Newsroom 3.2: Ethics in High Relief

A superb, taut, powerful Newsroom 3.2 tonight, with at least three stories revolving around: ethics.

(Cue Rod Serling voice)  Submitted for your approval:

3. Hallie gets in trouble for a late-night tweet saying Republicans are happy because the Boston bombings did not involve guns.   She's forced to resign, to make Republicans happy.   No discussion of whether her tweet, though it might have been in bad taste, had any truth to it.   Realistic enough, but a sad day for ethics in the newsroom.

2.  Maggie, on a the train back from Boston (after covering the bombings), hears an EPA official saying Obama's not doing enough for the environment.   Maggie, with the help of a guy who later identifies himself as a Professor who teaches ethics at Fordham Law School (yes!), records the EPA official as he's talking. Later, she not only decides not to use the recording - which she has every legal right to use - but, at first, doesn't want to accept the EPA official's offer to give her another story, in return for her promise not to use the recording.  As Maggie says, she may have a legal right to use the recording, but not an ethical right, and she doesn't want to take the bribe of the second story to keep quiet on the first.   Ethical?  Hell, yes.   And it's good to see that Maggie does eventually take the second story - as well as give her card to the Fordham prof who wants to see her again - once it's clear that the second story isn't a bribe, because she's not going to use the first in any case.   Good to see ethical behavior rewarded.

1.  But Neil's story is by far the most serious.  He can be sent to Fed prison for his work in getting the info from the government leaker - said by FBI to be a "bad guy".   In one of Will's best moves in the series, he contrives to get Neil out of the building and away from the FBI, and, Will inserts himself in the game by telling the FBI that he knows the name of Neil's source.    This last season of The Newsroom is now set for one of its best stories in all three seasons:  Will becoming Edward Snowden - well, not quite, because Will doesn't work for the government - but close enough.

In an age in which ethics in journalism is tested and on the line all the time, it's a real pleasure and an education to see it center-stage in The Newsroom.


analysis of the first two seasons

See also The Newsroom 3.1: Media on Media

And see also The Newsroom Season 2 Debuts on Occupy Wall Street and More ... and (about Trayvon Martin) If Only There Was a Video Recording ... The Newsroom 2.2: The Power of Video ... The Newsroom 2.7: Autopsy of a Bad Decision ... The Newsroom 2.8: The Course of True Love ... The Newsroom Season 2 Finale: Love, Triumph, and Wikipedia

And see also The Newsroom and McLuhan ... The Newsroom and The Hour ...The Newsroom Season 1 Finale: The Lost Voice Mail



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Shadow-Banned on Reddit!

Hey, I've been meaning to tell you about something I discovered a few weeks ago - I've been shadow-banned on Reddit!   And, I've got to say I'm pretty happy about it.

What's "shadow-banning," you may ask?  It's a nasty little way that Reddit deals with spammers and other people they don't like.  Your account seems intact.   But your Up and Down votes don't show up, and neither do any submissions of stories you seek to make.   In other words, rather than just ban you outright, you're deluded into thinking your account is fine, when, in fact, it's just a shadow of itself - or a shadow on the wall of Reddit.

Indeed, although I was shadow-banned four months ago, I first found out about it just a few weeks ago, when I Up-voted a story about Marshall McLuhan - not written by me - and found that my Up-vote had no impact on the number of Up-votes shown.  I looked more carefully, and found this in my waiting messages:

rom 1point618[M] via /r/printSF/ sent 4 months ago
You've been shadowbanned, probably for posting a bunch of spam from tumblr.
This is a reddit-wide thing, so I can't do anything about it. See /r/shadowbanned or /r/ShadowBan for more information.

Just for the record, although I've recently become active on Tumblr, I was barely on there at all four months ago, and don't recall ever submitting anything from Tumblr to Reddit.

So why was I shadow-banned?

My best guess someone was peeved by my public condemnation of Reddit and its poor performance in the aftermath of the Boston bombings, when it ID'd via crowdsourcing someone as the bomber who had nothing to do with it.   In fact, The Newsroom just dealt with that same lamentable behavior of Reddit in The Newsroom's third season debut last night, and I talked about it - incorrigible that I am - in my review.

But, who knows?  Maybe it was for some other reason that I know nothing about.  I do know that I'm actually happy about being shadow-banned.  It's great example of what I call the "Dark Side of New New Media" in my New New Media book - in this case, the petty and arbitrary dictatorial conduct of moderators on all too-many an online system.   I'll certainly use this as an example in the next edition of my book.

But I'll also confess to enjoying the outlaw-ish quality of being shadow-banned.  It's fun, especially for a professor and often serious author like me, to be an outlaw.   So much so, that I thought I'd put up a song that I recorded with my group, The New Outlook, way back in 1965.   A guy by the name of Mark Goodman wrote it, Stu Nitekman (aka Jonathan Hatch) sang the lead, and I'm doing high falsetto harmony.  I'm "The Outcast" - or least, I'm that on Reddit, and I'm proud of it.

The Newsroom 3.1: Media on Media

I could've lived without a show about the Boston bombings, but if it was to be done, the best way to do it would be The Newsroom, which told the story of the Boston bombings tonight with all of the brilliance and trimmings we've come to expect of this remarkable show.   A good way indeed to start off its final season, sad as that fact is and tragic as the Boston bombings are.

As always, the media are the story on The Newsroom, and, in particular, the way not only The Newsroom crew but other media covered the Boston bombings.    The Newsroom people are understandably wary of going with any story or information too soon, given the burning they received with the Genoa story last season.   But not so other media - traditional and social.

John King on CNN, in reality and on this episode, wrongly reported that the FBI had a suspect.   King was and is a well-respected journalist, so The Newsroom was tempted to go along with his report, but wisely holds back.

Far more egregious is what Reddit did in reality.   They crowd-sourced an attempt to identify the bombers, and came up badly wrong.   The suspect they thought they ID'd - a Brown University student - was in reality a poor soul who hurt no one except himself.   After Reddit put his family through the anguish of an incorrect identification as one of the bombers, the family suffered further anguish when it was discovered that the student was missing because he had taken his own life.   Will was right to lash out at citizen journalism in this case.

Meanwhile, as always, The Newsroom has other stories percolating and ready to boil.   Neil, for noble reasons, may be guilty of abetting espionage.   And it seems that the whole network may be vulnerable to a hostile financial takeover.

The Newsroom has just started - as Will also says near the end - and, knowing that this will be the last season it starts, I miss it already.


analysis of the first two seasons


See also The Newsroom Season 2 Debuts on Occupy Wall Street and More ... and (about Trayvon Martin) If Only There Was a Video Recording ... The Newsroom 2.2: The Power of Video ... The Newsroom 2.7: Autopsy of a Bad Decision ... The Newsroom 2.8: The Course of True Love ... The Newsroom Season 2 Finale: Love, Triumph, and Wikipedia

And see also The Newsroom and McLuhan ... The Newsroom and The Hour ...The Newsroom Season 1 Finale: The Lost Voice Mail



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The Newsroom Season 2 Finale: Love, Triumph, and Wikipedia

A rip-rousing conclusion to The Newsroom season 2 last night, as true love triumphs and maybe begins, and the newsroom crew (to no surprise but still satisfying) beats back attempts from various sources, including themselves, to shut them down.

Will and Mac finally kiss, proclaim their love for each other, and - in a move that was a surprise - get engaged.  Sloan - after a frustrating evening of not being to say much at the news desk - expresses herself even better by planting a passionate kiss on Don.  Jim and Maggie don't kiss, but at least get to have the beginning of a worthwhile conversation.

Leona has appointed her son to decide whether to accept Will and Charlie's resignations, which creates some tension, because he previously told Charlie that he and Will should resign.  But in looking over the whole sordid story, he comes to the correct conclusion - no one will be fired.

There's a lots of good political humor woven into this episode. Ever wonder why on Election Night on occasion one network is hugely ahead of the others and the actual reported vote in announcing a winner? Newsroom's explanation: a mistake in the news room.  I have no idea whether this has actually ever happened, but it certainly is an intriguing possibility, and it's played out beautifully on this show.

The one slight misstep takes place in the Wikipedia story - more precisely, Mac's attempt to get Neal to change something she doesn't want on her Wikipedia page. Although Aaron Sorkin got most of it right, the repeated reference to what "Wikipedia" needs or wants misses the crucial point that there are no Wikipedia editors in charge.  Instead, all readers, who by virtue of being on Wikipedia are able to edit, are the powers that discuss, reach consensus, and make decisions on talk pages available to everyone about what should be retained in articles.   More about this in my book, New New Media.

But, hey, that's a small quibble, I'm more of a fan than ever, and I'm looking forward to the next season of The Newsroom.

See also The Newsroom Season 2 Debuts on Occupy Wall Street and More ... and (about Trayvon Martin) If Only There Was a Video Recording ... The Newsroom 2.2: The Power of Video ... The Newsroom 2.7: Autopsy of a Bad Decision ... The Newsroom 2.8: The Course of True Love

And see also The Newsroom and McLuhan ... The Newsroom and The Hour ...The Newsroom Season 1 Finale: The Lost Voice Mail



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The Newsroom 2.8: The Course of True Love

As President Obama prepares the address the American people tonight about what - hopefully - will be the movement towards a peaceful solution to the horror of Syria's chemical weapons, The Newsroom 2.8 brought us back to just this past November and the election of Obama to the Presidency for his second term,

Actually, though, the episode had very little political or even news-coverage content, and instead focused on MacKenzie's attempt to find some closure for the false report that Obama used chemical weapons that she and the ACN staff both above and below her were responsible for airing.  In particular, she wants Will to fire her, as her only honorable exit.

Will thinks otherwise - unlike MacKenzie and Charlie, Will is inclined to accept Leona's impassioned refusal to fire Will and Charlie, and her exhortation to Charlie to win back the public's trust.  But what's really at stake here - in a sly movie for the story of the series that undercuts politics and news - is Will's still not yet coming to terms with Mac's cheating on him back in 2007 (before the series began).  He keeps coming back to this, at every turn in the conversation about her professional future.

Why indeed?  This is still a bit of a mystery, because she clearly loves and loved Will.  And Will thought he correctly got that, during their relationship.  The vague explanation we've so far received about all that is Mac realized how deeply she loved Will while she was cheating, but the die was already cast, and led to the death of their relationship.

But not the intense love the two still share, which animates a lot of the major professional crises on the show, and which we'll hopefully see more about - and maybe even more of - when the series concludes its brief second season next week.

See also The Newsroom Season 2 Debuts on Occupy Wall Street and More ... and (about Trayvon Martin) If Only There Was a Video Recording ... The Newsroom 2.2: The Power of Video ... The Newsroom 2.7: Autopsy of a Bad Decision

And see also The Newsroom and McLuhan ... The Newsroom and The Hour ...The Newsroom Season 1 Finale: The Lost Voice Mail



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The Newsroom 2.7: Autopsy of a Bad Decision

About as brilliant a piece of television as you can get on The Newsroom 2.7 last night, which completed its careful dissection of the worst decision a news network can possibly make.

That decision, which we've seen both the build-up to and (thanks to flashforwards) some of the consequences of all season, was ACN's going live with a stunning report: the US used sarin gas in Pakistan.   This would have been a provocative story for The Newsroom to probe even were it not for the awful synchrony of nerve gas being used by Syria just last week in our reality.   In the case of The Newsroom, it represented a departure from the series' forte, which is detailing the reporting of real stories.

I still favor the basic reporting on real stories which is the lifeblood of the series, but the sarin gas story was done so well as to be a tour-de-force in itself.   The ease with which a video recording can be altered in this digital age with barely a trace, the way in which the alteration was discovered, the reaction of all the principals to the unfolding recognition that this prime news operation had been taken for a ride, was a tableau writ large of just what can go wrong in our age of 24/7 news and why.

The discussion over whether to air the report in the first place was itself extraordinary.  The varying reasons for going with story, the counter arguments, presented a textbook of how right and wrong opinions in all their variations can all seem to be so right.   For me, Jim Harper's distrust of the producer who was leading the charge - who indeed covertly edited an interview to give it a declarative statement it never had - would have been the most persuasive, even if we hadn't seen the producer do the dirty edit. In life, you sometimes have to go with your gut.  At very least, you enter dangerous precincts when you put your gut aside.

It was also gratifying to see Jane Fonda's character Leona, the ultimate owner of the network, stand behind her people even when, consumed with guilt, they were serious about resigning.  When Charlie tells her, voice high with emotion, that they have to resign because "we don't have the trust of the public anymore," Leona screams back, "get it back!"

Would that there were more people in positions of power in the media like Leona!

On to the coverage of real stories in two weeks - 2012 Election night!

See also The Newsroom Season 2 Debuts on Occupy Wall Street and More ... and (about Trayvon Martin) If Only There Was a Video Recording ... The Newsroom 2.2: The Power of Video

And see also The Newsroom and McLuhan ... The Newsroom and The Hour ...The Newsroom Season 1 Finale: The Lost Voice Mail



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The Newsroom 2.2: The Power of Video

The power of video was in evidence in The Newsroom 2.2 tonight - including what can happen in its absence.

At an Occupy Wall Street protest, the NYPD - who in reality and on this show demonstrate a blissful and vexing disregard of the First Amendment - Neil is arrested for doing his job, i.e., reporting on the event.   Fortunately, he live streamed his unconstitutional arrest, so even though the marauding NY cops took and likely broke his phone, the video of his outrageous arrest survived.   Will is able to use it to get Neil released.   Journalists arrested by constitutionally illiterate cops weren't quite so lucky in our reality.  But Tim Pool's video did get the case against OWS reporter Alexander Arbuckle thrown out of court last year. (I was pleased to have Tim Pool guest lecture in my class at Fordham University a few months earlier.)

Video, of course, can also incriminate, and it lands Maggie in increasing hot water - that is, a video of her, recorded by a bystander and put on YouTube, when she was in effect proclaiming her love for Jim. Determined to get the video off of YouTube, Maggie (with Sloan insisting on accompanying her) track down the video poster via Foursquare.   The poster is not prone to remove the video - it's getting lots of hits and is connected to her blog, after all - but Sloan tries to buy the poster's compliance by offering to tweet a pointer to the poster's blog to Sloan's nearly half a million followers on Twitter.  The poster agrees, takes the tweet - only to write a blog post about the whole event, anyway, which of course garners even more to attention to the video, which she hasn't removed, and her blog.  A savvy and amusing lesson about the labyrinthine power of social - or what I can "new new" - media, and the wheelers-and-dealers who try to use these media for their often conflicting purposes.

But the final lesson about video in this episode, about the impact of no video, is not amusing at all. Troy Davis is executed for killing  a police officer in Georgia.   He proclaimed his innocence until the end.   If only a video existed of what really happened to the cop.   Just as justice would have been better served if a video existed of what George Zimmerman did to Trayvon Martin.   We don't yet live in such a world, but we're slowly getting there.

See also The Newsroom Season 2 Debuts on Occupy Wall Street and More ... and (about Trayvon Martin) If Only There Was a Video Recording

And see also The Newsroom and McLuhan ... The Newsroom and The Hour ...The Newsroom Season 1 Finale: The Lost Voice Mail



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