Newsroom Headlines: News Night Takes on the Tea Party
Episode three of HBO’s new drama The Newsroom, set during the midterm elections in 2010, examines the rise of the Tea Party. Our hero, anchorman Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels), a self-described mainstream Republican, begins the show with an on-air apology “for the failure of this program during the time I’ve been on it to successfully inform and educate the American electorate.” Off camera, news c…