TV review: The Newsroom; Veep

“America is not the greatest country in the world any more”, says Will McIvor, the flawed hero of The Newsroom, in the opening minutes of Aaron Sorkin‘s latest TV drama. It is a classic Sorkin moment of eloquent, logical argument: a room full of disbelieving students hear McIvor, a prime-time news anchor, point out the uncomfortable truth, egged on by [...]