“The Newsroom” is exactly what we expect from Aaron Sorkin.
It’s a workplace drama that plays fast and loose with the “workplace” part and leans heavily on the “drama.” If you’re hung up on the nuts and bolts of running a cable news channel or you don’t quite give the art form its due, then you’re not going to see the elements of the show that make it a thrilling Sorkin offering.
I’m aware of the amount of annoyance that critics and television journalists have with “The Newsroom” and its portrayal of the “workplace.” This need for realism in drama, in my opinion, is the destruction of the art.