THE NEWSROOM
is a new series on HBO that is written by Aaron Sorkin.

It takes real events like the Deepwater Rig burnout and Oil Spill, and this last episode the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, back engineers the newsroom actions and sets up the characters in world events.

If you watch it, ignore its politics (which lean decidedly left) and watch the personal interactions of the story.
It is a soap opera about a newsroom made real by using real events.
However, at every turn, someone else has a flubbed date or a blown love affair or a wild night of whoopee. We all know what world events were and we're not making ZELIG here. We're making "Real Housewives of Newsrooms"...
It's the backstabbing bitches and bro's that you should enjoy.
It's the amazing personal pettiness that is brought between friends, lovers, enemies and divorcees...
and then there's Bigfoot.