“The Newsroom” debuted Sunday night on HBO to a chorus of negative reviews. Aaron Sorkin’s show stars Jeff Daniels as a Keith Olbermann-like anchor who is dragged back to the heart of news gathering by an idealistic executive producer (and his ex-girlfriend), played by Emily Mortimer.
Juicy stuff. So why do the critics hate the show so much? The New Yorker called it "artificial intelligence"; The New York Times said the show "chokes on its own sanctimony."
Also read: 'The Newsroom' Review: the Harlem Globetrotters of News, but Pretentious
Wrap editor in chief Sharon Waxman and Howard Kurtz of Newsweek-Daily Beast and The Daily Download, square off on the issue.