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The Newsroom In 2012, creator Aaron Sorkin’s television series The Newsroom aired on HBO cable network. Actor Jeff Daniels portrays Will McAvoy, News Night’s anchor and managing editor, with impeccable style and realism. The newscast McAvoy and his staff produces is notorious for being soft news (Dominick 2013) but that is about to change. The pilot episode begins at a forum at Northwestern University. McAvoy consistently avoids questions of political party allegiance and other salty topics with humor. Journalists must use caution when interjecting their own opinions into their news reports, as well as revealing their political views to their audience, so they do not lose their credibility or appear bias in their reporting (Dominick 2013). When McAvoy is pinned down to answer a question regarding the why the US is the greatest country, he ultimately lets loose and offers a glimpse of the pent-up journalist inside the “politically correct” anchor of News Night. Upon returning from vacation, McAvoy finds his staff and executive producer, Don, are moving to 10:00 pm. Surprise number two comes when he finds out that Charlie Skinner, president of the news department, has hired Mackenzie McHale, McAvoy’s ex-fiancé, to replace Don. During McAvoy and McHale’s first …show more content…
Soft news content primarily appeals to amazement, curiosity, or sympathy for its news value (Dominick 2013). Human interest stories and entertainment news make up the bulk of soft news and are often presented in a magazine format (Dominick 2013). Hard news stories are predominantly issues that concern large groups of people, are governmental, economic, environmental, and the like (Dominick 2013). Consisting of the basic who, what, when, where, how, and why facts, hard news is most always presented in the beginning of a broadcast news program and soft news would come in a later segment (Dominick
The Newsroom In 2012, creator Aaron Sorkin’s television series The Newsroom aired on HBO cable network. Actor Jeff Daniels portrays Will McAvoy, News Night’s anchor and managing editor, with impeccable style and realism. The newscast McAvoy and his staff produces is notorious for being soft news (Dominick 2013) but that is about to change. The pilot episode begins at a forum at Northwestern University. McAvoy consistently avoids questions of political party allegiance and other salty topics with humor. Journalists must use caution when interjecting their own opinions into their news reports, as well as revealing their political views to their audience, so they do not lose their credibility or appear bias in their reporting (Dominick 2013). When McAvoy is pinned down to answer a question regarding the why the US is the greatest country, he ultimately lets loose and offers a glimpse of the pent-up journalist inside the “politically correct” anchor of News Night. Upon returning from vacation, McAvoy finds his staff and executive producer, Don, are moving to 10:00 pm. Surprise number two comes when he finds out that Charlie Skinner, president of the news department, has hired Mackenzie McHale, McAvoy’s ex-fiancé, to replace Don. During McAvoy and McHale’s first …show more content…
Soft news content primarily appeals to amazement, curiosity, or sympathy for its news value (Dominick 2013). Human interest stories and entertainment news make up the bulk of soft news and are often presented in a magazine format (Dominick 2013). Hard news stories are predominantly issues that concern large groups of people, are governmental, economic, environmental, and the like (Dominick 2013). Consisting of the basic who, what, when, where, how, and why facts, hard news is most always presented in the beginning of a broadcast news program and soft news would come in a later segment (Dominick