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The Newsroom

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The Newsroom	comment	The Newsroom (2012-14) is an American television dramedy series on HBO, created by Aaron Sorkin, which chronicles the behind-the-scenes events at a fictional cable news channel as they reported real events from recent history. The ensemble cast is headed by Jeff Daniels as News Night anchor Will McAvoy, who, together with his staff, sets out to put on a news show "in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles and their own personal entanglements." Other cast members include Emily Mortimer, Alison Pill, Dev Patel, John Gallagher Jr., Olivia Munn, Thomas Sadoski, Sam Waterston and Jane Fonda.Sorkin, who created the Emmy Award-winning political drama The West Wing, was reportedly developing a cable-news-centered TV drama as early as 2009. After months of negotiations, premium cable network HBO ordered a pilot in January 2011 and then a full series in September that year. By the time the second episode had been broadcast, HBO had renewed The Newsroom for a second season.Sorkin did his research for the series by observing several real-world cable news programs first hand. He serves as executive producer, along with Scott Rudin and Alan Poul.HBO renewed the series for a shortened third & final season in November & December of 2014.Not to be confused with the Canadian sitcom of the same title.Official website
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The Newsroom / int_116f6f1c	type	Self-Plagiarism
The Newsroom / int_116f6f1c	comment	Self-Plagiarism: The first ten minutes of The Newsroom uses nearly the exact same set-up as the first ten minutes of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, where a main character has a very public meltdown and the show is forced to rebuild in wake of the consequences. Sorkin is now engaged in writing a Fix Fic for his Fix Fic...
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The Newsroom / int_12b6fe15	type	Walk and Talk
The Newsroom / int_12b6fe15	comment	Walk and Talk: Done exactly once in the pilot and avoided for every other episode.
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The Newsroom / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Newsroom / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Will has one early in the second season when his calling the Tea Party "the American Taliban" gets him kicked off of ACN's September 11th anniversary coverage. He starts exaggerating his conservative views to try to convince everyone (including himself) that he's not a partisan hack.
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The Newsroom / int_14a5a8e2	type	Nerds Are Sexy
The Newsroom / int_14a5a8e2	comment	Nerds Are Sexy: The cast is basically a bunch of politics nerds who are all presented as sexually desirable. Sloan and Neal are the nerdiest members of the cast and they don't lack for romantic opportunities.
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The Newsroom / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Newsroom / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: MacKenzie tells Sloan she desperately hopes there isn't any new piece of nonsense she has to cover after being forced to cover the Casey Anthony story. As soon as she finishes: Subverted with Will getting out of his hospital bed while mirroring and quoting lines from Man of La Mancha. In the musical Don Quixote dies very shortly after the lines Will quotes. As the newsroom prepares reluctantly to bump more important stories to cover Casey Anthony and Anthony Weiner, the power suddenly goes out. Mackenzie is ecstatic, thinking they could do the show they always wanted outside and become a team again. Not so fast, McHale.
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The Newsroom / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
The Newsroom / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: On a one-to-two-year delay. The very first episode is about the Deepwater Horizon spill. A very subtle play on this trope in the same episode: when the news alert of the rig explosion arrives at the newsroom, images of a Space Shuttle landing are seen on some screens in the background. That is Space Shuttle Discovery landing at Kennedy Space Center at the end of STS-131, which indeed happened on April 20, 2010, the day the episode is set. The framing story of season 2, the fallout from false reporting on Operation Genoa, was ripped directly from CNN's "Operation Tailwind" fiasco in the '90s.
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The Newsroom / int_161b6946	type	Looping Lines
The Newsroom / int_161b6946	comment	Looping Lines: In-Universe. There is an error in a prerecorded piece that's discovered as it's airing. The reporter has to get on the phone and speak over the incorrect section of the piece while out to dinner with his family.
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The Newsroom / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
The Newsroom / int_161f1ebf	comment	Maggie and Jim also have romantic tension set up between from the first episode, but are kept apart by Maggie's relationship with Don and (later on) Jim's relationship with Lisa. Even after Don and Lisa respectively break up with Maggie and Jim upon discovering their feelings for each other, they still don't get together, and Jim meets and ends up dating Hallie. Maggie and Jim ultimately get their Relationship Upgrade after Jim's relationship with Hallie falls apart and he confesses his feelings to Maggie.
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The Newsroom / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Newsroom / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Charlie, president of ACN news division, is a Reasonable Authority Figure and once served in the Marines.
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The Newsroom / int_18f2b2b	type	Hypocritical Heartwarming
The Newsroom / int_18f2b2b	comment	Hypocritical Heartwarming: Charlie can't resign because Leona wants to fire him one day for annoying her.
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The Newsroom / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
The Newsroom / int_19d06ef7	comment	Will warning a gossip columnist that he's A Father to His Men.
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The Newsroom / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Newsroom / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: MacKenzie gets extremely catty around Will's dates, despite the fact that she's in a three-month relationship herself.
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The Newsroom / int_1f83dc62	type	Named Like My Name
The Newsroom / int_1f83dc62	comment	Named Like My Name: The staff includes a black man named Gary Cooper. That's the joke.
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The Newsroom / int_1f862cf	type	Dare to Be Badass
The Newsroom / int_1f862cf	comment	Dare to Be Badass: Leona gets two over the course of the series. From Red Team III: And a retroactive one from What Kind of Day Has It Been:
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The Newsroom / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Newsroom / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The complicated e-mail messaging system is integral to the story of 2nd episode. Also, Will's amended contract comes back to bite him in the ass in episode 4. The televised basketball game in the background during the Stomtonovitch interview. The engagement ring Will uses to trick Mac in "Bullies" sits in his drawer for a season and a half, and gets brought back out again towards the end of "Election Day, Part II".
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The Newsroom / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
The Newsroom / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: The death threat subplot of Season One is completely dropped with the beginning of Season Two, as is Lonnie, the bodyguard. In Season Three, the legal case over the Genoa story, the entire subplot behind Season Two, is rarely, if ever, mentioned.
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The Newsroom / int_237f7eeb	type	Missing White Woman Syndrome
The Newsroom / int_237f7eeb	comment	Missing White Woman Syndrome: Mentioned in passing from time to time.
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The Newsroom / int_245a7c37	type	Enraged by Idiocy
The Newsroom / int_245a7c37	comment	Enraged by Idiocy: Will does not suffer fools easily and is prone to lecturing those around him when they express opinions that he finds stupid, even when it's against his self interest.
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The Newsroom / int_27725a69	type	Nice Character, Mean Actor
The Newsroom / int_27725a69	comment	Nice Character, Mean Actor: In-universe. On his newscasts, Will is known most of all for his inoffensiveness. In person, he's got quite a temper. Though he's more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
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The Newsroom / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
The Newsroom / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Throughout season 3, Hallie has been defending viral media more and more over the "old media" that Jim works for. After being fired from ACN and taking a job with a site with "bonuses for page views," Hallie and Jim enter a tense period, but he tries to be supportive (while still needling her about her writing degrading as it shifts in content). Eventually, this comes to a head in "Contempt" where they have an argument where he lets all of his feelings about her come out. At the very end, he wants Hallie to cut through her philosophical arguments about "digital revolution" and "likes, page views, followers" and honestly ask herself if she believes in the value of what she's writing, as a journalist. This cuts pretty deep. Especially since everything he says is 100% accurate.
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The Newsroom / int_2b812abd	type	Going for the Big Scoop
The Newsroom / int_2b812abd	comment	Going for the Big Scoop: Will invokes this in a magnificent takedown of a gossip columnist who has the gall to call herself a journalist.
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The Newsroom / int_2b9e3fb0	type	Give Me a Sign
The Newsroom / int_2b9e3fb0	comment	Give Me a Sign: Mac asks God for a sign when she's about to engage in sleazy journalism and the lights go out, saving her day... briefly.
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The Newsroom / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Newsroom / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Will was an established lawyer prior to becoming a journalist, a speechwriter for Bush 41 and is a registered Republican who enjoys his weed.
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The Newsroom / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
The Newsroom / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Will's bodyguard, though he's no less intelligent and witty than any other castmember. It's his physical presence that fits here, not his attitude.
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The Newsroom / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
The Newsroom / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: Jim dismisses Neal's enthusiasm over WikiLeaks as a non-story in episode 3. Neal reiterates his interest in WikiLeaks in a later episode, but it's again ignored. The newsroom is unimpressed by Neal's tales of Occupy Wall Street, but he stubbornly insists on pursuing the story.
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The Newsroom / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
The Newsroom / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Mac ships Jim/Maggie and Don/Sloan.
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The Newsroom / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Newsroom / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Hello, HBO. Hello, TV-MA rating.
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The Newsroom / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Newsroom / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: MacKenzie on one side, Leona on the other.
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The Newsroom / int_373273af	type	Throwing Out the Script
The Newsroom / int_373273af	comment	Throwing Out the Script: Will's rant in the pilot episode, when he suddenly drops his cultivated "Jay Leno" facade of pleasant inoffensiveness to say what he's really thinking.
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The Newsroom / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Newsroom / int_38d02d44	comment	Towards the end of episode 1, it is revealed that Charlie hired MacKenzie as part of a successful Batman Gambit to get Will to return to doing hard-hitting journalism.
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The Newsroom / int_3a9eb947	type	SpiritualSequel
The Newsroom / int_3a9eb947	comment	Spiritual Sequel: To both Sorkin's shows Sports Night and Studio 30 On The Sunset Strip, which both at times took on greater social and political issues in their runs, but it tends to work better here due to the setting.
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The Newsroom / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Newsroom / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The show is about how News Night is trying something radical: providing hard news to the public regardless of ratings. However, the show centers on real historical events that were not influenced by the existence of News Night. Therefore, News Night cannot have any actual impact on American culture without the show jumping into an Alternate History. Episode four has Will admit that his assault on the Tea Party had no effect on their rise to power. It's also pretty obvious that their revolutionary debate format was not going to come to fruition. Played with in season 2, where it appears they've received some sort of gigantic story that would have likely changed America's political and national security situations... but it ended up being false, and the season's framing device has them talking to a lawyer trying to contain the damage. Season 2 episode 2 has a subplot where Don tries to find a way to leverage his contacts to get the execution of Troy Davis called off. It doesn't work.
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The Newsroom / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Newsroom / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Sloan set Tim Geithner on fire, just to show the other cabinet members that she could.
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The Newsroom / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Newsroom / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Will prior to the beginning of the series. He's trying to fix that, though.
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The Newsroom / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
The Newsroom / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Charlie jokingly claims that he and the Yippies almost managed to levitate the Pentagon. Will says that's not possible because the Pentagon is a big, heavy building.
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The Newsroom / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
The Newsroom / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: Done in "First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers."
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The Newsroom / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Newsroom / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: "Bullies" has two examples of this: First, the Japanese translator tells a few Blatant Lies about both what TEPCO representative Daisuke Tanaka says and what Sloan is asking him. When Sloan calls the translator out on the lies, she reports Tanaka's earlier statements he made to her off the record, a serious breach of journalistic ethics. Charlie figures a way out of the predicament by a second blatant lie: having Sloan claim that she made an elementary Japanese mistake.
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The Newsroom / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Newsroom / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The series finale. Charlie Skinner is dead, Pruitt still owns ACN, and the News Night team will have to fight a daily battle with him to retain the channel's journalistic integrity and uphold Charlie's legacy. But on the plus side, Will and Mac are going to have a child, Jim & Maggie and Don & Sloan's relationships are going great, Neal is back from his 'exile', Mac is promoted to Charlie's position, and the team has the chance to fight another day.
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The Newsroom / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
The Newsroom / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten: Mackenzie on a few occasions, notably when Leona tells Will "not to shoot and miss," leading to: Happens to Will in the third season when he's berating Neal:
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The Newsroom / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
The Newsroom / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: Sloan has a crush on Don who is dating Maggie who has a crush on Jim who is dating Lisa. Wow.
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The Newsroom / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
The Newsroom / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: In a professional sense, MacKenzie to Will.
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The Newsroom / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
The Newsroom / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Maggie shows up in the first scene of the second season with a short, scary haircut. When Will's lawyer reacts with horror, he explains that she was traumatized while on assignment.
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The Newsroom / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Newsroom / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Both Will and Don qualify. They soften over the series' run.
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The Newsroom / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
The Newsroom / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: As is normal in Sorkin's works, more characters have more poetry memorized than anyone in the world (besides English majors). Not to mention an encyclopedic literature background that looks suspiciously like that required for a World Literature PhD. And they all love quoting it.
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The Newsroom / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Newsroom / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When Jim's group is told that There Is Only One Bed for the three of them, Hallie quips, "Well that was a predictable plot twist." One character accuses Will of calling himself a Republican solely to criticize the GOP from a position of safety. Critics accused Sorkin of making McAvoy a Republican for this very reason. Bringing the accusation into the show allows Sorkin to reply to it in-character. In the first episode of the third season, Will and Mac talk about which "act" the newsroom's story is in. Will eventually declares that they're at the end of their first act, and thus there is still more story to tell. When someone points out that Maggie is giving a monologue, she admits that everyone in her office tends to do that.
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The Newsroom / int_4e4f42be	type	Love Confession
The Newsroom / int_4e4f42be	comment	Love Confession: Sloan, to Don Keefer, in "The Greater Fool": Will is implied to have made one to MacKenzie in a voice mail message, but the full message is deleted by Nina Howard. He and the audience find out what it says in "Willie Pete". He never stopped loving her.
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The Newsroom / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Newsroom / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first season uses a different opening from the second and third seasons, with a slightly different arrangement of the theme. In the pilot episode, Jim Harper introduces himself to a source on the phone as working for "News Night on Atlantis." In every subsequent episode, the network is only referred to by either its full name Atlantis Cable News or its initialism ACN.
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The Newsroom / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Newsroom / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: the Romney Press officers are absolutely infuriating in their smug refusal to answer any of Jim's questions about the lack of consistency in Romney's positions, and in their characterizing Jim as being the one to be unreasonable.
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The Newsroom / int_5094d45e	type	Tabloid Melodrama
The Newsroom / int_5094d45e	comment	Tabloid Melodrama: Will and MacKenzie are targeted by a smear campaign which turns out to be backed by Lansing.
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The Newsroom / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
The Newsroom / int_50ca4422	comment	Will and Mac vacillate between UST and Belligerent Sexual Tension for most of the series, mostly due to Will's inability to forgive Mac for cheating on him with Brain when they were first together. Will eventually manages to forgive Mac and, upon realizing that he does in fact still love her, proposes to her in the Season 2 finale.
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The Newsroom / int_51fb447f	type	Offending the Creator's Own
The Newsroom / int_51fb447f	comment	Offending the Creator's Own: In-universe. The Republicans are not amused by Will, who pounds them daily because he believes that the GOP has lost its way.
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The Newsroom / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Newsroom / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The first season starts with Will being asked by a sorority girl "What makes America the greatest country in the world?", whereupon he launches into a tirade that America is not the greatest nation in the world, and reinvigorates him on a crusade that imperils him. The season ends with the same sorority girl joining News Night as an intern, inspired by Will, and asking Will the same question. Will's answer this time: You do. Jim's introduction in the pilot episode has him read a random yellow news alert (lower priority) without anyone telling him to, which leads to the Deepwater Horizon story. Maggie, after mentioning this scene in the second season finale, ends the episode by clicking on a random yellow news alertnote All it read was, "Beijing China to pick-" presumably alluding to the parallel Communist Party elections occurring across the world. What might turn it red? The deadly, freak snowstorm that descended at the same time. The series finale, "What Kind of Day Has It Been" includes a series of flashbacks that set up the circumstances that led to the events of the series premier. We see Charlie's growing disillusionment with Will becoming the 'Jay Leno' of news and how he hires Mac to revamp News Night, and how Mac went to the fateful talk at Northwestern and ensured that the 'Sorority Girl' got to ask her question about what makes America the greatest country in the world.
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The Newsroom / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
The Newsroom / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: Subverted when an EPA bigwig is interviewed on News Night and tells Will that any attempt to fix the environment is futile because it's too late to stop the end of the world.
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The Newsroom / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
The Newsroom / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: Since the actual newsroom is directly behind Will during broadcasts, it's possible to see important characters scrambling about to get information to the proper people.
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The Newsroom / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
The Newsroom / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: MacKenzie isn't afraid of anything except jellyfish, which is completely normal.
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The Newsroom / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
The Newsroom / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Jerry Dantana seems to think he's one when it comes to the Genoa story.
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The Newsroom / int_61375e57	type	BigDamnKiss
The Newsroom / int_61375e57	comment	Big Damn Kiss: Two in "Election Night, Part II". Sloan & Don and Will & Mac. At the end of "Oh, Shenandoah" Jim and Maggie.
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The Newsroom / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Newsroom / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Don in "Amen." After being a ratings and image-obsessed jerk for the first few episodes (not to mention being wrong about almost everything), he's shown extremely upset over the kidnapping of Neal's Egyptian contact, even dislocating his shoulder trying to break into the office of the President of AWM. He's a lot more sympathetic afterwards. Taylor Warren, Jim's archnemesis from the Romney campaign, gets hired as a pundit for ACN's 2012 election coverage. Reese Lansing is an antagonist in the first season for placing profit above journalism and scheming against the main characters. He starts to shift in the second season and becomes firmly in the Newsroom's camp by the third, though he still makes the occasional gripe that ACN could be more competitive with rival news channels. Leona Lansing is an Anti-Villain for the first season and becomes much more sympathetic by the second season.
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The Newsroom / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
The Newsroom / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: Accuse Will of inappropriately groping women, spending exorbitant amounts of money on a suit, and verbally offending his dates? Sure! Just don't call him a liberal. He's a card-carrying, registered Republican.
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The Newsroom / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Newsroom / int_62434fe2	comment	At the beginning of "Oh Shenandoah,” the guard warns Will that during long stays in solitary confinement, people can have bouts of Sanity Slippage. Come the end of the episode reveal...
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The Newsroom / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Newsroom / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: If you look at the basketball game during the edited interview with Stomtonovitch, you'll see the basketball game reveals Dantanna's cut and paste job. It is the piece of evidence that proves to be their downfall.
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The Newsroom / int_66eb63b1	type	Brandishment Bluff
The Newsroom / int_66eb63b1	comment	Brandishment Bluff: Played for laughs. Sloane enters Will's office waving a piece of paper around and declaring "Drone strike!" When new hire Jerry Dantana asks to see the paper and get more info she admits it's blank and she "just wanted a prop".
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The Newsroom / int_6861146e	type	Epiphany Therapy
The Newsroom / int_6861146e	comment	Epiphany Therapy: In "Bullies," Will suddenly realizes that his Bully Hunter personality comes from standing up to his abusive father. He also discovers that his trouble sleeping is due to guilt over having Sloan lie on air, but this is instantly subverted: it's just late-night bacon snacking.
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The Newsroom / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
The Newsroom / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: In "Red Team III," Don explains that the Genoa story was Jerry's fault due to a doctored interview, not an example of institutional failure. Rebecca Halliday says there were holes in the Genoa story before that. When Don says they would have seen those holes if not for the doctored interview, Rebecca says he just described institutional failure.
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The Newsroom / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Newsroom / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: At the end of season one, it's revealed that MacKenzie really was there at the campus debate, holding up messages which inspired Will's tirade. At the end of "Oh Shenandoah,” it turns out Will never had a cellmate; he was wrestling with a projection of his abusive father the entire time.
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The Newsroom / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Newsroom / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Poor Neal is stuck running menial errands for both Sloan and Mac in "Election Night." Sloan has him tracking down a book with a faked signature of hers that sold at a charity auction for $1,000, calling it "fraud." Meanwhile, Mac wants Neal to correct which university she went to on her Wikipedia page, saying, "We're going to get this one right." It's implied that both tasks are motivated by lingering guilt the women feel over the Genoa fiasco.
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The Newsroom / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Newsroom / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Leona Lansing (Jane Fonda) was named in honor of two successful businesswomen: real estate developer Leona Helmsley (she of "Only the little people pay taxes" infamy) and former Paramount Pictures CEO Sherry Lansing.
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The Newsroom / int_6c8ce91f	type	Insult to Rocks
The Newsroom / int_6c8ce91f	comment	Insult to Rocks: When questioned about his likening of the Tea Party to Taliban by the ACN lawyer, Will deadpans that "The Taliban resented it."
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The Newsroom / int_6da90c4d	type	Full-Name Ultimatum
The Newsroom / int_6da90c4d	comment	Following the disastrous immigration broadcast in "News Night 2.0", Charlie begins his reprimand of Will with a Full-Name Ultimatum.
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The Newsroom / int_6de438eb	type	The Everyman
The Newsroom / int_6de438eb	comment	The Everyman: Jennifer Johnson, the generic college student who is moved by Will's program to make a difference in society.
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The Newsroom / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
The Newsroom / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Outspoken liberal activist Jane Fonda is cast as ACN CEO Leona Lansing, who comes down hard on Will for criticizing the Tea Party for business reasons in spite of being a liberal herself.
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The Newsroom / int_71dc4b06	type	If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You
The Newsroom / int_71dc4b06	comment	If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You: In the season three premiere, Will is upset when he finds out that Mac has had his breakfast order of French toast, scrambled eggs and bacon with a side of bacon and Dr. Pepper, replaced with Greek yoghurt, a gluten-free muffin, hardboiled eggs, one third of a banana and green tea.
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The Newsroom / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Newsroom / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: The Lansings don't bother to check the evidence against them before caving. Leona also insists that her son admit to criminal actions in the presence of several journalists with whom she is feuding. Previous episodes characterize the Lansings as shrewd and calculating.
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The Newsroom / int_72bafff5	type	Doomed Moral Victor
The Newsroom / int_72bafff5	comment	Doomed Moral Victor: Invoked and lampshaded repeatedly. Also perfectly justified: the team is very good at their profession, and as even Reese points out in the season 2 finale, they perform a needed public service, and they make it look cool.
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The Newsroom / int_73b9b420	type	Fox News Liberal
The Newsroom / int_73b9b420	comment	One character accuses Will of calling himself a Republican solely to criticize the GOP from a position of safety. Critics accused Sorkin of making McAvoy a Republican for this very reason. Bringing the accusation into the show allows Sorkin to reply to it in-character.
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The Newsroom / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
The Newsroom / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: After Sloan shoves Neal and yells at him several times, he overtly flirts with her in response. After Sloan implies interest in Don, but then decides to continue working on the show, she gruffly insists that they never speak or make eye contact with each other. Don's response to this is essentially, "Yeah, right."
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The Newsroom / int_75f626a5	type	Nostalgia Filter
The Newsroom / int_75f626a5	comment	Nostalgia Filter: During his tirade, Will claims that America once stood for noble principles. He never identifies when this supposed golden age was.
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The Newsroom / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
The Newsroom / int_762b9223	comment	Sloan slams Neal up against a wall for saying her ass is big (despite him explaining beforehand that it's a lie), and this is, naturally, Played for Laughs.
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The Newsroom / int_78540917	type	Like Brother and Sister
The Newsroom / int_78540917	comment	Like Brother and Sister: Will and Sloan. He says outright that she's like his little sister.
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The Newsroom / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
The Newsroom / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: Maggie hits Jim in the head with a glass door, twice. In the same episode, Don attempts to tackle a door (and fails).
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The Newsroom / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The Newsroom / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: One of the themes of season 2 is noting how the disaster that has befallen the news team was set up by a wide assortment of small and unrelated incidents. Will gives a speech to his legal team listing many other examples of the trope found throughout history.
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The Newsroom / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
The Newsroom / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: Will has a large rant in the pilot about how ludicrous it is for Americans to think it's the greatest country in the world, when it reality it has a lot of problems that it ignores. He wants to return to Ye Goode Olde Days.
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The Newsroom / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Newsroom / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: The show's first scene has Will's considerable apathy armor pierced by the question, "What makes America the greatest country in the world?" Will refutes the question out of hand, flatly stating, "It isn't." Cue tirade. This came full circle in the first season finale. "Sorority Girl" Jennifer Johnson is applying for an internship at News Night. Will demands that she asks the question again, and when she does, he answers, "You do," and hires her on the spot.
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The Newsroom / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Newsroom / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Will is extremely good at dishing these out, which ends up backfiring on him often. In his first scene he nearly alienates everybody by going on a tirade about why America is not the best country in the world anymore, which bumps up his ratings instead. When he delivers one to Sloan in order to spur her, the overzeal makes her perpetrate a gross mistake on air. A remarkable one costs Will a drink in the face and a smear campaign when he demolishes a gossip columnist he was supposed to be flirting with.
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The Newsroom / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
The Newsroom / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: Maggie, in the framing story of Season Two's first episode, serving mostly to signal that she underwent a significant (and not necessarily positive) change between seasons. When we find out the reason behind the drastic change, which is lampshaded more than once, it’s utterly heartbreaking & completely understandable.
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The Newsroom / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
The Newsroom / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Maggie's mid-meeting panic attack, exacerbated by not having any Xanax on hand. Jim eventually talks her down from it.
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The Newsroom / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Newsroom / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: MacKenzie gets hers in the first episode with her Don Quixote speech to Will and, when the show goes to air with breaking news, the line "Nothing on the prompter is where this man eats." Jim's comes when he keeps pushing the Deepwater Horizon story despite the alert not going red, then gets two sources to confirm that it's much, much worse than what is being reported. Neal arguably gets two: one in “I’ll Try to Fix You” with his staunch avocation that there is evidence supporting the existence of Bigfoot; and the second in "Amen", when he tells Will and the production team about having been on one of the trains bombed in the 7/7 attack. Charlie’s comes in the pilot: in the scene between him and Will in the AWM executive dining room, Charlie shows he can go toe to toe with the hot-headed Will & then put it right back away instead of taking it out on the waitress who approached immediately afterwards.
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The Newsroom / int_7fff034b	type	Kent Brockman News
The Newsroom / int_7fff034b	comment	Kent Brockman News: The series is about averting it.
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The Newsroom / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Newsroom / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The final episode, "What Kind of Day Has It Been," gives flashbacks leading up to the first scene of the first episode. A conversation between Jennifer Johnson and Mac while they are waiting on line at Northwestern shows Jennifer is intelligent but worried about the future. It actually gives some context to the first scene of the first episode, although the viewers would have to watch it again to get Once More, with Clarity.
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The Newsroom / int_80491c2f	type	"Open!" Says Me
The Newsroom / int_80491c2f	comment	"Open!" Says Me: Don tries to get into Reese's office so they can rescue a foreign correspondent taken by the Egyptian military. He bashes it with his shoulder and then he collapses to the ground in pain. Subverted.
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The Newsroom / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Newsroom / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "Election Night" when Charlie is listing everything that's gone wrong at ACN over the past few days.
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The Newsroom / int_81bdc398	type	He's Back!
The Newsroom / int_81bdc398	comment	He's Back!
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The Newsroom / int_831164fe	type	Signature Style
The Newsroom / int_831164fe	comment	Signature Style: This show is pure Sorkin.
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The Newsroom / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
The Newsroom / int_83fb6177	comment	First-Episode Twist: It's only at the moment the BP spill story hits, about halfway through the pilot, that a caption reveals the show is set two years in the past.
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The Newsroom / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
The Newsroom / int_84249fbc	comment	Nerd Glasses: Sloan occasionally wears a pair to remind us that she's a nerd.
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The Newsroom / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Newsroom / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Leona Lansing... Will warning a gossip columnist that he's A Father to His Men.
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The Newsroom / int_8a58bb81	type	Meta Guy
The Newsroom / int_8a58bb81	comment	Meta Guy: MacKenzie says everything that the audience is supposed to think about the love triangles. "Don is supposed to be with Sloan, and Jim is supposed to be with Maggie!"
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The Newsroom / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
The Newsroom / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: "The 112th Congress" takes place over a several month period, while framed and intercut by a meeting between Charlie and Leona.
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The Newsroom / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
The Newsroom / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: "Red Team III". "Boston", the season 3 premier. Neal has a contact leaking him government documents, and by asking them to get more in order to prove their legitimacy has technically committed a federal crime, Will is thinking of quitting, and ACN is in the middle of a hostile takeover by Reese's father and estranged half-siblings. And as the title suggests, it also deals with the Boston Marathon bombings. "Oh Shenandoah," big time.
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The Newsroom / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
The Newsroom / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: In season 2, it's revealed that Charlie's government contact fed him incorrect information to destroy his career. The contact blames Charlie for his son's death by overdose after getting fired from ACN.
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The Newsroom / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
The Newsroom / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Refreshingly averted as of "Bullies". Will's seeing one, who uncovers Will's troubled childhood and (somehow) manages to cut through his bullshit. He's pretty awesome.
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The Newsroom / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Newsroom / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Jerry Dantana intentionally edits a clip to make it look like a three-star general admitted that the U.S. used chemical weapons. When Mac finds out and fires him for this massive violation of journalistic ethics, he has the gall to sue ACN for wrongful termination. Dantana thinks that the rest of the crew is just as guilty as him because they failed to catch him before they aired the Genoa story. Never mind that his editing the clip was the reason why they aired the story in the first place. Charlie's longtime government contact, Shep Pressman, has some rather odd views on who's responsible for his son's death from drug overdose. Charlie apparently deserves to be assassinated because he fired an emotionally unstable addict who'd leaked sensitive info from the newsroom. Not that Shep had asked for Charlie to shelter this kid or anything, he was just supposed to know who he was and give him a break.
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The Newsroom / int_9820c37a	type	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
The Newsroom / int_9820c37a	comment	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Charlie and Leona are practically dance partners for this trope.
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The Newsroom / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Newsroom / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: In "Contempt," Hallie comes very close to comparing Jim to Will in terms of desperation to be liked by an audience he doesn't really respect.
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The Newsroom / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Newsroom / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Leona Lansing's last line in "The 112th Congress" is "do you wanna play golf or do you wanna fuck around?". It's blink and you'll miss it, but in most other episodes there is a set of golf clubs in Charlie's office suggesting what his choice will be. In Season 2, an African child is told that Maggie's hair "is called blonde [...] and it's nothing but trouble." It turns out that the child's fascination with Maggie's hair causes him to be in just the right spot to be shot dead. At the beginning of "Oh Shenandoah,” the guard warns Will that during long stays in solitary confinement, people can have bouts of Sanity Slippage. Come the end of the episode reveal... Don Quixote is frequently used throughout the series as justification for redoing the news on their "mission to civilize" and an example of what they should try to become. Don Quixote was insane and of course failed in his mission.
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The Newsroom / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
The Newsroom / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: In the pilot episode, after the professor hosting the discussion spends a significant amount of time goading Will into offering a more substantive answer to the question "Why is America the greatest nation on Earth?", notice how quickly he tries to change the subject when Will finally loses his patience and snaps "It isn't."
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The Newsroom / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
The Newsroom / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: An interesting spoken version, where Will spells it out: "None of this is the fault of a twenty year old college student, but nonetheless you are a member of without a doubt the worst period generation period ever period!" When Mac accidentally sends an e-mail to the entire office about how she cheated on Will...
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The Newsroom / int_9f094cfb	type	Cathartic Exhalation
The Newsroom / int_9f094cfb	comment	Cathartic Exhalation: Invoked during the episode Fix You: the graphics guy (with great sadness) created a card with Gabby Giffords’ birth and “death” years when other news outlets all began asserting she had been killed in the Tuscon shooting. When the ACN crew scoop all of them by getting confirmation that she is, in fact, still alive and awaiting surgery, the technical director tells the graphics guy to "breathe regular" as he shakily edits the card to remove the dates.
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The Newsroom / int_a220d528	type	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Newsroom / int_a220d528	comment	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Snarked by Neal as Will declares he's going to "fix the Internet!" Of course, Neal's a hundred percent right.
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The Newsroom / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
The Newsroom / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Charlie is a really nice guy who backs Will up all the way and even pushes him to do a better job with his hard-hitting journalism. He's also got a manipulative streak, which he uses to promote the good of the show and his employees.
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The Newsroom / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
The Newsroom / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: In "5/1", Bin Laden's death was portrayed as this. However, Neal's girlfriend, whose father died during the 9/11 attack, slipped away from the celebrations, stating that it didn't make her feel any better. The newsroom erupts into applause when CNN retracts their identification of the Boston bombers. Will and Charlie yell at them for it, saying that CNN stumbling doesn't make ACN any taller (though after their speech they high-five each other in excitement).
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The Newsroom / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
The Newsroom / int_a86069f	comment	The show is about how News Night is trying something radical: providing hard news to the public regardless of ratings. However, the show centers on real historical events that were not influenced by the existence of News Night. Therefore, News Night cannot have any actual impact on American culture without the show jumping into an Alternate History. Episode four has Will admit that his assault on the Tea Party had no effect on their rise to power. It's also pretty obvious that their revolutionary debate format was not going to come to fruition.
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The Newsroom / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
The Newsroom / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Deliberately invoked by Charlie to Lucas Pruitt in "Contempt."
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The Newsroom / int_aa58bf92	type	Working with the Ex
The Newsroom / int_aa58bf92	comment	Working with the Ex: Much of the tension of the show is based on this. Will and Mac. A productive relationship full of peculiar banter. Invoked by Will with Brian. Mac's ex gets chosen by Will to do a piece about them because the situation enforces boundaries in the article.
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The Newsroom / int_ac12cde1	type	Bully Hunter
The Newsroom / int_ac12cde1	comment	Bully Hunter: Will is revealed as one in "Bullies," though his instinct to attack bullies ironically turns him into an unwitting bully himself.
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The Newsroom / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Newsroom / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The look on Mackenzie's face when Will happily exclaims that he's wasted the night he's supposed to go on air and report on the successful assassination of Osama Bin Laden is one of apprehensive terror.
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The Newsroom / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Newsroom / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Everyone.
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The Newsroom / int_aebae11c	type	Viewers Are Morons
The Newsroom / int_aebae11c	comment	Viewers Are Morons: Discussed in-universe between Will and Mackenzie during their first meeting. Will is a seasoned professional who believes in its validity or inevitable applicability, while Mac is a defier who thinks there is room for intelligent content in the news. She manages to convince Will of his error, but they have to compromise on one occasion when the ratings plummet.
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The Newsroom / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
The Newsroom / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Will spends the entire pilot calling Maggie "Ellen", and makes several other mistakes as well because he's so out of touch with his staff.
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The Newsroom / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Newsroom / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: While chasing the Genoa story, News Night needs to speak with a member of Occupy Wall Street who might know a source. After Will humilates her on air, the OWS member demands an apology in exchange for the contact. When Will finally goes to apologize in person, he admits that they didn't even need her info at that point since they found the contact themselves. He could have never made the apology and the story wouldn't have been affected.
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The Newsroom / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Newsroom / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Several characters, but predominantly Charlie, are fond of saying "I'm not fuckin' around!"
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The Newsroom / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Newsroom / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Sloan is reluctant to accept her position because she fears being used as such. MacKenzie admits that she'd be passing over equally- or better-qualified economists because she's got great legs, but ultimately insists that she's being hired for both her credentials and her looks.
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The Newsroom / int_b0485a20	type	Ditzy Genius
The Newsroom / int_b0485a20	comment	Ditzy Genius: Sloan. Will criticizes her lack of judgment and says that she's supposed to be the smartest person in the newsroom due to her two doctorates. She counters that she's good at economics, not other things. MacKenzie is stated to be the best EP in the business, but has a number of foibles. She has to use her fingers to do basic arithmetic. She's surprisingly clueless about technology for a reporter who's been in the field. She also admits that she knows absolutely nothing about economics.
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The Newsroom / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Newsroom / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: The famous "America is not the greatest nation" scene / rant is triggered when the college professor who is moderating the debate that Will is participating in gets a little cocky and tries to goad Will into offering a substantive answer to the question "Why is America the greatest nation in the world?" Judging by the deer-in-the-headlights expression he gets and the speed he tries to change the subject when Will finally snaps and gives him the substantive answer he was looking for with both barrels, he's quickly regretting that he didn't just let it lie.
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The Newsroom / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Newsroom / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: In the series premier, "We Just Decided To", and subsequent episodes, it is strongly implied that Charlie and Mac are old friends who go way back, and that Mac used to work for ACN with Will. But the flashbacks in the series finale "What Kind of Day Has It Been" reveal that Charlie had only heard of Mac's previous relationship with Will, and first met her shortly before the events of the premier, in order to hire her. Moreover, previous episodes (most notably Season 2's "The Genoa Tip") revealed that Will began his journalistic career in ACN as a legal correspondent, before becoming the lead anchor after he successfully anchored on 9/11. But according to the aforementioned flashback sequence Will worked at CNN at some point in the past, along with Mac.
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The Newsroom / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Newsroom / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: According to Word of God, the entire series is meant to be a take that to the current state of American news organizations, and media companies in general. In the first episode, Will's weak, inoffensive news personality is repeatedly compared negatively to Jay Leno. The show takes numerous digs at news organizations, particularly Fox News. In "5/1," Will turns on Fox News to show Geraldo Rivera making incorrect speculations. During the debate episode, we see a CNN debate moderator lob Michelle Bachmann the softball, "Elvis Presley or Johnny Cash?" Sloan uses her lecture on economics to criticize the repeal of Glass-Steagall and calls Bill Clinton out for repealing it. Will undertakes a vendetta against the Tea Party that lasts the entire season. In an early episode, he calls out the Koch brothers for being the power behind them. The season one finale features an extended effort to dismantle everything they stand for, culminating in calling them the American Taliban. In "Bullies," Will spends a show criticizing Rick Santorum for his anti-gay agenda. Don spends an entire scene brutally deconstructing how Nancy Grace emotionally manipulates viewers with trashy tabloid stories and production tricks. When a particularly insulting Rush Limbaugh rant plays on a nearby computer, Neal punches the screen, breaking it and his hand. Maggie delivers a screaming tirade against the unrealistic nature of Sex and the City in the first season finale. In "Boston," Will declares that the media, including the major news networks and the Washington Post, bungled their coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, endangered innocent people and hindered law enforcement agencies. Many characters don't have particularly high opinions of social media because people rush to share news and developments without proper verification or make off-color (or outright offensive) comments without fully considering the potential ramifications. In the case of the Boston Marathon bombing, rampant online speculation forced law enforcement officials to reveal sensitive details that they themselves weren't completely sure of. Also, Hallie makes an offensive joke about the Republican Party on ACN's official Twitter account that causes a minor firestorm and is promptly fired for her indiscretion. The Occupy Wall Street movement is not portrayed very positively. The movement is openly mocked by the reporters at ACN and the only person interested in it, Neal, is also the butt of the joke while he pursues it. The only reason that Mac allows Neal to bring an OWS member on the air is so that Will can tear her apart on national television.
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The Newsroom / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
The Newsroom / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling: In-universe, the network's higher-ups want to cut Will and Mac's wings off for being too outspoken against certain corporations and groups. This interference gets fought by Charlie, who acts as a protector.
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The Newsroom / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Newsroom / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Charlie criticizes Will for smoking and takes his cigarette away, then takes a drag off of it. Will and Charlie lambaste the newsroom for cheering CNN's failure, then covertly celebrate with each other.
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The Newsroom / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
The Newsroom / int_ba236071	comment	Don in "Amen." After being a ratings and image-obsessed jerk for the first few episodes (not to mention being wrong about almost everything), he's shown extremely upset over the kidnapping of Neal's Egyptian contact, even dislocating his shoulder trying to break into the office of the President of AWM. He's a lot more sympathetic afterwards.
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The Newsroom / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Newsroom / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Delivered twice by Leona Lansing in the punchline to her joke: "Do you wanna play golf or fuck around?" Also Will's response when Sloan points out that the vast majority of the American electorate has no idea what the debt ceiling actually is. After getting on the phone with ACN's daytime control room to stop a morning show host from relaying a defamatory story about Will and Mac, Charlie orders the control room to "put me right in his fucking ear". After the RNC rep pulls the plug on Will's presidential candidate debate demo (because Will is less interested in lobbing softball questions than calling out the candidates for their campaign rhetoric), he asks Don if Elliot would moderate instead. Don shuts him down with "Eat me." The rep then offers the job to Sloan by asking her if she'd like to be a star; her answer is a curt "Fuck you," representing nearly the only profanity heard from Sloan to date. Thereafter, whenever Sloan drops an f-bomb, it's a sign that she is absolutely furious. ACN becomes the first news organization to learn of General Petraeus's impending resignation over an extramarital affair. Unfortunately, this happens after ACN retracted the Genoa story, so it's too risky to report on potentially libelous stories about the Armed Forces. Charlie's response is to walk into the middle of the newsroom, where everyone is busy working on the 2012 election coverage and scream "I mean, what the fuck?!"
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The Newsroom / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Newsroom / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Will is a Bully Hunter and will flip out if you try to bully him or threaten people he cares about. He tells a tabloid reporter, "You touch my staff and you are walking into a world of hurt." Unfortunately he can take this impulse too far. Sloan is touchy about her weight. She's open to the idea of Neal criticizing her in order to pose as an internet troll, but flies into a rage when he suggests talking about her butt. Afterwards, she demands that he reassure her that it's not big. In another scene, she's told she's (professionally) "expanding" and immediately assumes that it's an insult about her recent weight gain. Sloan also gets very, very cranky when people ask why it's so hard to balance the budget when they can balance their checkbooks just fine.
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The Newsroom / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
The Newsroom / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: In the beginning of the show, Will has no idea that people think he's an asshole. In episode four, he and Sloan talk about how they have no ability to mingle at a party. We also see him piss off several women in what were supposed to be romantic moments. In spite of all this, Will gets plenty of dates. Other characters, as well as Sloan herself, say that she has no understanding of human interaction and only understands economics.
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The Newsroom / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
The Newsroom / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: MacKenzie Morgan McHale, Sloan Sabbith, Leona Lansing. Taken up to eleven with Mac in the season two finale.
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The Newsroom / int_c0b01	type	Set Behind the Scenes
The Newsroom / int_c0b01	comment	Set Behind the Scenes: takes places at cable news channel.
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The Newsroom / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
The Newsroom / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Sloan slams Neal up against a wall for saying her ass is big (despite him explaining beforehand that it's a lie), and this is, naturally, Played for Laughs. In Season 2 MacKenzie starts doing this to Will, one time slamming him against the wall twice, though considering the size difference, he's allowing her. Shelley gutpunching Neal because she was angry with his boss was played for laughs
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The Newsroom / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Newsroom / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: News Night. Internally known as News Night 2.0 after it's revamped by Charlie, Will and Mackenzie. News Night is the flagship news program on ACN and receives the most attention. The follow-up show at 10pm hosted by Elliot, known as Right Now with Elliot Hirsch, also gets some attention. The show between them at 9pm, barely ever seen in the show, is called The Capitol Report with Terry Smith. Also mentioned are a morning show called ACN Morning, Sloan's own financial recap show at 4pm known as Market Wrap-Up with Sloan Sabbith, and an entertainment show referred to as Atlantis Hollywood.
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The Newsroom / int_c2e2a445	type	Jade-Colored Glasses
The Newsroom / int_c2e2a445	comment	Jade-Colored Glasses: Will.
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The Newsroom / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
The Newsroom / int_c3648b87	comment	Will and Mac. A productive relationship full of peculiar banter.
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The Newsroom / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
The Newsroom / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are: In "Election Night, Part II", Jim tries to get Maggie to stop beating herself up over Uganda by pointing out that going back into the orphanage to try and save the kid was incredibly brave of her.
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The Newsroom / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Newsroom / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: In "Unintended Consequences", there's a brief scene after Maggie and the African children have safely gotten away on the bus and she's reading a book with the boy she bonded with. Less than a minute later we see what really happpened to him.
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The Newsroom / int_c3c77510	type	There Is Only One Bed
The Newsroom / int_c3c77510	comment	When Jim's group is told that There Is Only One Bed for the three of them, Hallie quips, "Well that was a predictable plot twist."
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The Newsroom / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Jerry's plan to sue ACN involves piling on a bunch of lawsuits regarding minor issues (as well as his firing over Genoa) in the hope that at least one of them will stick. Don lampshades the insanity of Jerry's plan when he himself gets sued for calling Jerry a sociopath during a reference check by Kickstarter.
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The Newsroom / int_c673210e	comment	Informed Judaism: Elliot, which is only mentioned when Don is complaining about him being overly optimistic as opposed to stereotypically pessimistic
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The Newsroom / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Newsroom / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Ep.2 had the name of one of the staff who quit be named Mohammad al Mohammad al Mohammad bin Bazir, a reference to The West Wing episode "20 Hours in America". Will telling a tabloid reporter, "I will rededicate my life to ruining yours," is another line taken straight out from Sports Night. "Gather ye rosebuds" Joshua, er Jim. Will is frequently likened to the title character of Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha for his optimism. Ironically, the show has Will "correct" MacKenzie that Don Quixote rides a donkey instead of a horse, but Don Quixote does ride a horse. It's his sidekick Sancho Panza who rides the donkey. Elliot compares an eager and pushy Don with Mama Rose, a classic Stage Mom, but the reference is awkwardly lost on Don.
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The Newsroom / int_c7f96bce	comment	Especially Zoidberg: Will's disgusted ending to the stupidity of the SB-1070 interview in "News Night 2.0".
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The Newsroom / int_c91bf297	comment	Iron Lady: Leona Lansing, CEO of the network, played by Jane Fonda.
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The Newsroom / int_cc4b45f6	comment	According to Word of God, the entire series is meant to be a take that to the current state of American news organizations, and media companies in general.
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The Newsroom / int_d001c42c	comment	Leona Lansing is an Anti-Villain for the first season and becomes much more sympathetic by the second season.
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The Newsroom / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Charlie when he realizes why Will keeps ending up in the tabloids. The tabloids are owned by AWM, and everything is a ploy by Leona to create an environment where firing Will would be seen as logical. Mac has one when she looks at a digital timer and figures out that the basketball shot clock on the Stomtonovitch footage reveals video tampering.
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The Newsroom / int_d1726c18	comment	What, Exactly, Is His Job?: Charlie says it word for word regarding Reese Lansing, the nebulous President of ACN and son of the owner.
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The Newsroom / int_d394829d	comment	Frivolous Lawsuit: After Will's tirade in the pilot it's mentioned that the girl that asked the question is now suing the network for emotional trauma.
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The Newsroom / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: In the pilot, Will renegotiated MacKenzie's contract so that he'd have the option to fire her at the end of every week. To do so all he had to do was drop a million dollars from his salary and add a non-compete clause to his contract, which Leona plans to take advantage of once he starts broadcasting against AWM's wishes. Hiring Brian comes back to bite him, too.
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The Newsroom / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Newsroom / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Will is called out by several people on how he treated the college sophomore during his rant in the pilot episode. Jim gives one to Maggie when she brings up a personal disagreement during a business meeting. Charlie gives a rather epic one to Sloan for broadcasting comments disclosed to her off-record, violating journalistic ethics. Sloan gives Charlie one right back for his sexism when he calls her "girl". Lisa gives a magnificent one to Maggie in "The Genoa Tip", finally calling her out on the ludicrously selfish way she handled the Don/Maggie/Jim/Lisa love triangle. And of course, Jerry Dantana gets an enormous one from Mac in "Red Team III" for editing the raw footage of the Stomtonovich interview, compromising the integrity of the whole story and, on a greater scale, tarnishing News Night's reputation.
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The Newsroom / int_d4fbe5c4	comment	Delegation Relay: A woman comes into the newsroom with information about Anthony Weiner's infamous tweets. The distasteful task of conducting her pre-interview is delegated down by the entire staff until arriving at Maggie Jordan, the newest producer.
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The Newsroom / int_d52d28ab	comment	Hypocrisy: Leona Lansing. She claims that Will's firing, within the context she'd created, would be seen as an "honorable step by a corporation willing to sacrifice ratings for integrity." Incidentally the reason that she is contemplating firing him is because he and his team are going after her backers, attempting to do that exact thing.
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The Newsroom / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Jim's first day on the job sees a major incident that his college roommate and his sister just happen to be perfectly positioned to give him an advanced scoop on. Also, the fact that one of the biggest stories of the year practically fell in their laps on MacKenzie's very first day in the office. If it hadn't, who knows if Will would have retained her beyond the first week? When the show is forced into covering the Casey Anthony trial to recover from significant ratings slip, Maggie's friend Lisa (a pre-existing character) just so happens to have gone to high school with her. Lisa admits on-air she did not know her well, but the mere fact they could advertise having such a person on the show still helped them tremendously.
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The Newsroom / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Newsroom / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Charlie Skinner, head of the ACN News Division, is a stern but quite pragmatic boss (and fairly snarky when dealing so much complicated and prickly issues as the news entails). He often has to make hard decisions, but usually tries to do so without venting a lot of emotion into. Other times he vents a lot of emotion into it (but to show he cares, much like Will). Even when he has to fire someone for a screw-up, he mediates their downfall because he doesn't like being a bully for no reason. Judge Cedarman in "Contempt." He has to arbitrate between the Department of Justice seeking out a leaker of classified documents within the government and a major public figure standing behind the 1st Amendment. Being reasonable about matters like this is his job.
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The Newsroom / int_dcb9c541	comment	Downplayed with Don and Sloan. They get increasing amounts of Ship Tease from the Season 1 finale onwards, but their UST involves a lot less drama compared to the above couples, before getting together at the end of Season 2.
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The Newsroom / int_dd234c2f	type	Hallucinations
The Newsroom / int_dd234c2f	comment	At the end of "Oh Shenandoah,” it turns out Will never had a cellmate; he was wrestling with a projection of his abusive father the entire time.
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The Newsroom / int_dd9fba61	type	A Rare Sentence
The Newsroom / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: From "The 112th Congress".
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The Newsroom / int_e13cafe	comment	Office Romance: Most of the main characters have been or get into a relationship with someone else in the office. Even Gary Cooper, who has very little characterization, is revealed to have slept with several random staffers. In the third season, this trope gets lampshaded when a new HR manager decides to put his foot down on the issue.
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The Newsroom / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: While Will is on his crusade against the Tea Party, none of his guests are shown forming anything close to an informed defense of the Tea Party. In "The 112th Congress," Will asserts that an informed defense of the Tea Party is neither necessary nor possible. The show has been criticized for sprinkling invented stories in with real events to help make its arguments. One example is the fictional Republican congressman Bryce Delaney, who is pushed out by Republicans for working with Democrats to give aid to veterans.
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The Newsroom / int_e2cbeee9	comment	Gangsta Style: After Will disarms his date, he points her (empty) gun at her gangsta style.
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The Newsroom / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Part of a literal, live and uncut Terrible Interviewees Montage. The three pro-SB 1070 people Will interviews (a self-professed immigration expert, a Gun Nut, and a Dumb Blonde beauty pageant runner-up second runner-up), who are so incompetent that Will has to make their arguments for them. All the people who could provide good defenses for the law were taken by other news shows, to cut down on the strawman feel.
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The Newsroom / int_e38abd0f	comment	Embarrassing Ringtone: Jim is set up on a date with Maggie's girlfriend, which introduces her ringtone as a Chekhov's Gun. Apparently she's a fan of Rod Stewart.
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The Newsroom / int_e462893a	type	Artistic License â€“ Sports
The Newsroom / int_e462893a	comment	Artistic License – Sports: A critical plot development in the second season during an interview with a subject who is obsessed with March Madness, college basketball's post-season tournament. A character even uses the game's shot clock later to figure out that the interview tape was edited. However, the actual game being played on the background TV is a 2011 regular season game between Kentucky and Florida (perhaps as a nod to Florida alum Stephen Root, who played the character being interviewed). The game was played at Kentucky, while March Madness games take place at neutral sites. Additionally, the show took liberties with the basketball game that aired. Unlike today, CBS's graphics package wouldn't have shown a constant shot clock graphic, it was usually reserved for if the clock was under 10 seconds. Plus, the graphic◊ would have appeared inside the 4:3 safe area above the CBS logo in order to not be cut off for non-HD viewers. In order for the shot clock to be a plot point, it had to be added later◊ so that it would be in the shot and obvious to see during the interview. For one more addition, it can be seen that the shot clock resets to 25 seconds when possession changes on-screen, when at the time, NCAA shot clocks were 35 seconds.
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The Newsroom / int_e48f5a7f	type	Shallow News Site Satire
The Newsroom / int_e48f5a7f	comment	Shallow News Site Satire: At the heart of the show's persistent New Media Are Evil aesop, Jim's girlfriend Hallie gets a job writing click-bait articles at a fictional web journalism site called "Carnivore". Jim accuses her of selling out by writing for a site that pays her by the view and thereby incentives her to write dramatically rather than honestly. She takes this badly and writes an article about the experience called "Old Media Guy and New Media Girl: An Analog Romance," which is portrayed as insipid and perfectly representative of Carnivore's standards.
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The Newsroom / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Newsroom / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Maggie is so Donna that it hurts. Likewise, Jim is unmistakably Will Bailey, who was an expy for Sam Seaborn. Charlie does a good Isaac from Sports Night. Sloan is pretty clearly an Erin Burnett expy. Being a very intelligent, overly-qualified, idealistic man constantly battling to raise standards, who is fiercely protective of his staff, and in turn inspires great love and loyalty from them, Will can be interpreted as a darker and more foul-mouthed version of Josiah Bartlett. Also note that initially, Bartlett was a rude, raving Bad Boss who couldn't remember the names of his own inner circle until he was nominated as candidate for Presidency, which parallels Will's own transformation from having half his staff leave him and constantly calling Maggie 'Ellen' in the first episode, to having the entire team regarding him as 'Coach'. Similarly, Charlie is a darker version of Leo McGarry, his best friend, his greatest ally, his fiercest defender, and — on occasion — his harshest critic. Both of them also have drinking problems. He's also one of Isaac Jaffe, in that he's a network executive and also A Father to His Men. Will appears to have a similar relationship with his bodyguard that Jed Bartlet has with his body-man Charlie Young and the cadre of Secret Service agents assigned to protecting POTUS. The episode "Bullies" has Sutton Wall, an expy of Robert Traynham, the real-life openly gay adviser to Rick Santorum.
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The Newsroom / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
The Newsroom / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Jim has gone from being a complex, moody, workaholic Deadpan Snarker to being a cantankerous Jerkass.
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The Newsroom / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
The Newsroom / int_e83f211c	comment	After the RNC rep pulls the plug on Will's presidential candidate debate demo (because Will is less interested in lobbing softball questions than calling out the candidates for their campaign rhetoric), he asks Don if Elliot would moderate instead. Don shuts him down with "Eat me." The rep then offers the job to Sloan by asking her if she'd like to be a star; her answer is a curt "Fuck you," representing nearly the only profanity heard from Sloan to date. Thereafter, whenever Sloan drops an f-bomb, it's a sign that she is absolutely furious.
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The Newsroom / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: The show is filled with lengthy arguments and diatribes by various characters about the state of politics, economics, news, and other topics. It's easy to pick out who Sorkin is speaking through.
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The Newsroom / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Newsroom / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: How Sloan gets revenge on an ex who leaked naked pictures of her to the internet.
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The Newsroom / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: MacKenzie insinuates that Will's dates are all these. The first one is actually a grad student. The second one is a brain surgeon.
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The Newsroom / int_f2fe3a61	comment	Romantic Runner-Up: Don and Lisa for Maggie and Jim, respectively. They become aware of it pretty quickly, but, combined with some slick denials by Maggie/Jim, manage to ignore it for a while.
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The Newsroom / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Sloan's Bloomberg Terminal[1].
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The Newsroom / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: Will spends episode 7 tripping on a cocktail of weed and Vicodin. Played entirely for laughs, as any sign of this intoxication disappears as soon as he is on camera. Post-Genoa, Charlie twice encounters Leona at parties where she is stoned on pot. She proudly cops to it the second time.
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The Newsroom / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Neal's obsession with doing a news story on Bigfoot in episode four. His obsession with the paranormal quickly becomes a recurring character trait. Whenever Maggie and someone else are arguing, it is always right by where Neal is working. "James Tiberius Harper!" In the Election Night episode of season 2, Sloan cannot finish a sentence without someone, usually Will, cutting her off.
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The Newsroom / int_faf5732b	comment	I Call It "Vera": Will interviews a militia member who insists on keeping his rifle Jenny in the shot
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The Newsroom / int_fb4e0f18	comment	Asian and Nerdy: The two Asian characters are the nerdiest in the cast. Neal is the resident techie and a paranormal enthusiast. Sloan is an economics egghead with no social skills.
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The Newsroom / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: All the main couples have Unresolved Sexual Tension for lengthy stretches. In all cases, it gets resolved. Specifically: Will and Mac vacillate between UST and Belligerent Sexual Tension for most of the series, mostly due to Will's inability to forgive Mac for cheating on him with Brain when they were first together. Will eventually manages to forgive Mac and, upon realizing that he does in fact still love her, proposes to her in the Season 2 finale. Maggie and Jim also have romantic tension set up between from the first episode, but are kept apart by Maggie's relationship with Don and (later on) Jim's relationship with Lisa. Even after Don and Lisa respectively break up with Maggie and Jim upon discovering their feelings for each other, they still don't get together, and Jim meets and ends up dating Hallie. Maggie and Jim ultimately get their Relationship Upgrade after Jim's relationship with Hallie falls apart and he confesses his feelings to Maggie. Downplayed with Don and Sloan. They get increasing amounts of Ship Tease from the Season 1 finale onwards, but their UST involves a lot less drama compared to the above couples, before getting together at the end of Season 2.
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The Newsroom / int_feaf5424	comment	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: When she finds Will collapsed and bloody in the bathroom, Mac calls him "Billy." As we see later, this is her familiar name for him when they're in a relationship. During the coverage of the assassination attempt on Gabrielle Giffords, Will accidentally refers to her as "Gabby" before correcting himself. It is later heavily hinted that he knew her personally. Following the disastrous immigration broadcast in "News Night 2.0", Charlie begins his reprimand of Will with a Full-Name Ultimatum.
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The Newsroom / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The episode about Osama Bin Laden's death was obviously extremely researched: The Rock really was one of the first to tweet out something that seemed to indicate that Bin Laden was dead (and he does really have a cousin who is a Navy SEAL), the Phillies and Mets were playing baseball against each other that night and former Rumsfield aide Keith Urbahn was the first legitimate source to tweet that Bin Laden was dead. It becomes lampshaded at one point when somebody lists off every major network TV show that President Obama's address will be pre-empting, simply as a way of noting how serious whatever he's going to be talking about it.
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The Newsroom	hasFeature	Creator Worship / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Cryptid Episode / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Cue Card / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Delegation Relay / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Derailed Train of Thought / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Embarrassing Ringtone / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Fox News Liberal / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Gangsta Style / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Gay Conservative / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Geniuses Have Multiple PhDs / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Golden Mean Fallacy / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Heroic Seductress / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Hired for Their Looks / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Immigrant Patriotism / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Improbable Age / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Irrevocable Message / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Lame Comeback / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Majority-Share Dictator / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Manipulative Editing / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	N-Word Privileges / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Nerd Glasses / int_3127e38
OliviaMunn	seeAlso	The Newsroom
Oxbridge	seeAlso	The Newsroom
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Pull the I.V. / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Quote Mine / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Removing the Earpiece / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Retconning the Wiki / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Romantic Plot Tumor / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Second Episode Introduction / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Self-Plagiarism / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Set Behind the Scenes / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Shallow News Site Satire / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Silent Credits / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Sorkin Relationship Moment / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Standard Female Grab Area / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Straw Character / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Suddenly Shouting / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Teeth Flying / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	The Cast Showoff / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	The Immodest Orgasm / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	The Place / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Two Aliases, One Character / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Underage Casting / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Viewers Are Morons / int_3127e38
The Newsroom	hasFeature	Writer on Board / int_3127e38

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