Television's finest minds have their heads up their asses?or so Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom (HBO, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET) asserts in its bravura opening and, in numerous scenes thereafter, haplessly demonstrates.?Before we scan Sorkin's latest?a fantasy set at a prime-time cable-news show?let?s, for the sake of perspective, scan the dial. On Comedy Central, partisans of The Daily Show and citizens of Colbert Nation are united in analyzing the nonstop democracy-maiming horror of media distortion.?NBC is home to America's funniest terminal decadence?the?meta-narrative?Community,?the corporate self-critique 30 Rock, the comedy career of Brian Williams. Fox News and MSNBC exist symbiotically, sucking sound bites like fresh blood. This is not to mention the establishment on AMC's Mad Men manufacturing desire for a living,?or?the blocks of the network week given over to talent competitions that invite all the world behind the music. Fantastical projections and inside-baseball?X-rays?are a main game of home entertainment, especially on HBO, 20 years after The Larry Sanders Show presented a showbiz satire not to be flipped away from.
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