Why Do TV Shows Hate Journalists So Much? »
This continued depiction has, I think, some real-world consequences. Salon’s Andrew Leonard pointed out that, during the Boston crisis last week, a lot of people on Twitter referred to journalistic snafus by referencing Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom — despite the fact that the show has been panned and mocked to a fare-thee-well. Though we may not like the show, its wide visibility and availability as a shared reference has made it the focal point through which we see of the press’ difficulty in balancing speed and accuracy, even though that subject is hardly new. I think Leonard is right, but I’d make one annotation: the people on Twitter making this comparison were, I think, mostly journalists. Media people are thinking of themselves and their profession through these fictional depictions. And they’re almost entirely negative.Wrote about how most fictional journalists have no redeeming qualities and how this might affect journalists’ self-perception and perception of the news audience.