Salon Re-Viewed: The Newsroom

A review of the third-season DVD of “The Newsroom”:

Good night and good TV

July 1, 2008 | High-profile anchor firings, “terrorist fist bumps,” late-night Central Park meth busts: You’d think that a TV show set in a newsroom would write itself. But American television has been strangely lacking in scripted shows about the nightly news. Thank goodness for Canada, because in the mid-’90s and the early part of this decade, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. aired “The Newsroom,” probably the best and funniest television show ever made about the news business — and the perfect highbrow satirical payback for people who are tired of listening to Fox News talking heads.