How HBO Made It Look Like Critics Like 'The Newsroom' | Forbes »

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Time’s James Poniewozik, summarizing his views on The Newsroom for non-subscribers, flatly declared, “I was not a fan.” Yet the ad makes it sound like he was, burbling, “The pacing is electric…captures the excitement.” 

Salon’s Willa Paskin is quoted in the ad calling The Newsroom “captivating, riveting, rousing.” Here’s what she actually wrote: “The results are a captivating, riveting, rousing, condescending, smug, infuriating mixture, a potent potion that advertises itself as intelligence-enhancing but is actually just crazy-making.”

SPIN! Isn’t it beautiful?

(That line comparing it to John From Cincinnati is a particularly artful form of obscure cable TV burn.)

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