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Max posted:Were we supposed to be on Jim's side during that entire episode? Because at no point did I really care about him and actually just actively hated him. Jim is some kind of rear end in a top hat impresario: there is always more and it is always worse.
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HookShot posted:A black guy and a Harvard guy. they should call him threefer
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Fetus Tree posted:Also to the goon that first mentioned two-fer, thanks for that. It was bugging me why that dude was so familiar. Dule Hill is very good on psych, you should check it out.
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Hedrigall posted:Idk. It was all the locked doors with narrow windows I guess. They made a point of showing the Julliard sign and I'm pretty sure they have those reinforced doors because the practice rooms are fairly soundproof
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Dec 2, 2014 14:37
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I'll never pass up a chance to poo poo on Jim but he was pretty much right in the last episode, the never ending online half 'news' half clickbait startups are all complete poo poo from Buzzfeed having its staff host hundreds of articles about "this is me reading harry potter chapter by chapter" to publishing thinly veiled relationship/rant pieces.
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Dec 2, 2014 14:44
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The scene on the balcony was okay I guess, but my god he just couldn't leave it the hell alone while he was making a sandwich. Is it a credit to Sorkin's writing that I felt about as incredibly irritated as Haley did?
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This just in: Being a shithead and being right are not mutually exclusive.
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Hey it sure felt good to finish another writeup, why don't you start the next episode? Oh Oh god
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MrAristocrates posted:Hey it sure felt good to finish another writeup, why don't you start the next episode? 
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Dec 2, 2014 16:30
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Where did you find this picture of me?
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Midnight City posted:I'll never pass up a chance to poo poo on Jim but he was pretty much right in the last episode What high horse does Jim have though? What important journalism have they done? They stopped their tragedy porn coverage of Boston a few days earlier than some other channels and having a leak dropped in their laps? I guess they had that EPA piece that was twenty years too late to matter. Even from the brief description, I bet her 'Plan B' piece might be more interesting than being one of a dozen channels covering the same poo poo in slightly different ways.
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Acinonyx posted:What high horse does Jim have though? What important journalism have they done? They stopped their tragedy porn coverage of Boston a few days earlier than some other channels and having a leak dropped in their laps? I guess they had that EPA piece that was twenty years too late to matter. Even from the brief description, I bet her 'Plan B' piece might be more interesting than being one of a dozen channels covering the same poo poo in slightly different ways. A pregnancy scare isn't news. When they met, she was a serious journalist on a campaign bus. She had a great opportunity working for ACN and she hosed it up by being irresponsible. She then threw her journalistic integrity even further out the window. She turned into a tabloid reporter to make a quick buck. Or I totally misunderstood the situation.
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Dec 2, 2014 21:18
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People do a lot worse poo poo for money than write tabloids, still think Jim is an rear end in a top hat if he hates it so much he should break up with her instead of being an insufferable oval office about it
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Fetus Tree posted:People do a lot worse poo poo for money than write tabloids, still think Jim is an rear end in a top hat This. I hate Jim because he's so loving wishy-washy on everything. Either stand up for your principles and break up with her or swallow your pride and accept it. Don't drag it out making her feel awful as a person and a professional. And this is essentially Jim's character since the show began. gently caress Jim.
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Waltzing Along posted:When they met, she was a serious journalist on a campaign bus. Regurgitating press releases isn't serious journalism. Jim had a whole bit about that. Writing about a personal experience with Plan B clearly isn't journalism either, but it's more interesting and potentially helpful.
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Dec 2, 2014 21:45
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Can we all agree that the best thing about this show was Sam Watterson until this season where he took the stupid pill and the show went to absolute poo poo?
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Waltzing Along posted:Can we all agree that the best thing about this show was Sam Watterson until this season where he took the stupid pill and the show went to absolute poo poo? Sam Watterson playing a cranky and senile old man will never be old and will probably be the only thing I remember about this show.
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I'm would legit watch The Newsroom after it gets turned into Pruitt's crowdsourced social media Web 2.0 extravaganza.
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The best part was sam waterson but he also kinda sucks now
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This is how the show should end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwcVJMvVWDA
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Fetus Tree posted:The best part was sam waterson but he also kinda sucks now Close but no... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPhg253D9ZQ Keefer supremacy. blunt fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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Thwomp posted:This. I hate Jim because he's so loving wishy-washy on everything. I sort of saw where he was coming until he dropped that "So does your article start with 'Dear Penthouse'" right after she told him she was writing something about her personal experience with Plan B, which will probably have some emotional baggage attached to it. That smarmy look on his face after she stormed out made me just think he was the biggest rear end in a top hat in the universe and pretty much deserved the article she wrote about him. I was more surprised that she didn't break up with him right there, because your live-in partner saying something like that is a big indicator that things just aren't working out.
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Thwomp posted:This. I hate Jim because he's so loving wishy-washy on everything. That's the point though, in real life people don't break up with someone they care about over poo poo like that straight away, they needle and fight and argue and then hate each other for it. And Jim is a bit of a prick.
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Jim is the biggest piece of poo poo in the history of television. During the balcony scene I was rooting for Hayley to push him over the drat thing and put him out of our misery.
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didnt Jim cover wars or something off screen? seems more important than Plan B cosmo crap
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who cares about how important it is, its a job that she was happy to get and she isnt hurting anybody in the process
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Fetus Tree posted:who cares about how important it is, its a job that she was happy to get and she isnt hurting anybody in the process She was hurting Amurica. 
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Fetus Tree posted:who cares about how important it is, its a job that she was happy to get and she isnt hurting anybody in the process Except the whole exploiting Jim for hits thing, but sure.
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sportsgenius86 posted:Except the whole exploiting Jim for hits thing, but sure. yeah jim is truly a victim here in that relationship
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Fetus Tree posted:yeah jim is truly a victim here in that relationship Both people can be lovely
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I think think we, the viewers, are the victims.
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Come on guys stop hating on Jim. Haven't you ever loved someone so much it hurts?
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Yeah thinking Jim was right in this specific circumstance doesn't mean anyone is saying he isn't an extremely lovely person, it just happens that so is she. What I took from his argument was he finally realized she wasn't a "serious" journalist, she sold herself out by letting the Romney bus do whatever they wanted (until he had to 'save' her), she refused to even admit the hilariously obvious journalistic ethical problem that was being paid with page views, she flippantly posted hateful poo poo from the ACN account, then she lasted all of 5 days before writing a tell all opinion piece. The only suitable outcome was for both of them to fall off the roof. Although as a testament to how annoying they were they would've probably continued their annoying as poo poo argument the whole way down and take all the fun out of seeing them die. Midnight City fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Dec 3, 2014 |
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Is there anything wrong with being a writer and not a journalist?
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Dr_Amazing posted:Is there anything wrong with being a writer and not a journalist? There's definataly something wrong with being a writer and pretending to be a journalist.
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There's nothing wrong with being a journalist and having a job that also includes non-journalism writing.Midnight City posted:she refused to even admit the hilariously obvious journalistic ethical problem that was being paid with page views I'm all for the ethical position that one should write important news even if it's less commercially successful, but it's ridiculously entitled to believe you should be as well compensated for it as for producing something that's more popular. It's entirely common that acting ethically come with some self-sacrifice; everyone would do it if it didn't. Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Dec 3, 2014 |
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At least Sunny is starting again soon and I can like Liam again. I think the only thing that can save the newsroom is if Toby is right and everyone dies.
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So much of this show just feels so unearned. The scene in the kitchen? The sandwich scene? That all felt unearned. I didn't buy it, or at least I didn't care about it. Will & Mac getting married? Didn't care. I don't even really know how to articulate this, but it feels like this show is delivering a lot of "pay off" moments that actually don't pay off because the build up is weak, non-existent, trite or stupid.
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Those On My Left posted:So much of this show just feels so unearned. I think it's 'cause sorkin had like 50 eps planned for the season to insert lines like "do you have a go bag?" but then HBO said no you are dogshit sorin here's 6 eps make it work". So he just had to squeeze everything together but him not knowing what is good tv and what is bad leaves us with a slew of jim scenes.
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