Tag Archives: Will McAvoy

HBO: ‘The Newsroom Season 1: Jim Harper – News Night Senior Producer’

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Derik Schneider

“HBO presents “The Newsroom,” a new original series from Aaron Sorkin, premiering Sunday, June 24. For more on The Newsroom, go to:HBO.” From HBO Similar to yesterday, this sounds like a hard news report, what is important, get the facts, report … Continue reading →

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Pesman: Video: HBO’s The Newsroom: The Numbers Man

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Derik Schneider

. That whole scene sounded like two hard news veterans like Peter Jennings, for all you kids out there, he anchored ABC’s World News before he died ten-years ago, or Tom Brokaw, former anchor of NBC’s Nightly News, versus some … Continue reading →

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Chris Rabideau: Video: HBO’s The Newsroom: Gun Control

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Derik Schneider

. Don’t get me wrong, I’m in favor of what I call and others on the center-left call common sense gun control. And no that doesn’t mean gun prohibition and outlawing the second amendment. It means prohibiting stupid and crazy … Continue reading →

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HBO: Video: The Newsroom: The Greater Fool Broadcast

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Derik Schneider

. This is my first satire about voter id and that is because this is a very serious issue. Because we literally talking about perhaps the most anti-democratic pieces of legislation that America has ever seen at least going back … Continue reading →

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Scientarist: Video: HBO’s The Newsroom: Rick Santorum on Gay Rights

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Derik Schneider

. Rick Santorum and the broader Neoconservative-Right and Christian-Right are exactly why Americans are seen as stupid. We get stereotyped as people who think like them, as people who not only have warped religious and moral beliefs, but people who … Continue reading →

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Josh Glass: Video: HBO’s The Newsroom: The Tea Party Explained

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Derik Schneider

. Will McAvoy with an interesting explanation of the Tea Party. I would put it differently because similar to the Left in America, where I am on the center-left as a Liberal and New Democrat, the Tea Party is a … Continue reading →

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Nat Bishop: The Newsroom- Will McAvoy: New Kind of Republican

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source: Nat Bishop: The Newsroom- Will McAvoy: New Kind of Republican I’m not sure that you can describe Republicans who’ve been in the GOP since the mid to late 1970s, people like former Senator Jess Helms of North Carolina as ‘New … Continue reading →

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Josh O’Driscoll: Video: Occupy Wall Street Interview: Why it Failed

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Derik Schneider

. I don’t expect to win any new supporters with Occupy Wall Street and the broader Far-Left in America to go along with my three other supporters that I have, Tom, Dick and Harry, from this movement with this post. … Continue reading →

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HBO: The Newsroom- The Idealist vs. The Realist: News vs. Opinion

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Derik Schneider

“Key scene in Episode 1 of HBO’s ‘Newsroom’, in which there ensues a heated argument between Will McAvoy, the anchor and star of the newscast, and his new Executive Producer, MacKenzie McHale. This argument essentially poses the question ‘what is … Continue reading →

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Abu Wadee: Video: HBO’s Newsroom, “Why America is Not the Greatest Country in the World”

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Derik Schneider

. I actually really disagree with the Will McAvoy character here played by Jeff Daniels. And as far as this scene, I would’ve been more impressed if the people saying America is the greatest country could do that in more … Continue reading →

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