Television Show Disliked

“Things get sillier when the network brass begins getting upset: Apparently humiliating Tea Party freaks in live debate is … horrible for ratings, for some reason? And this makes network owner Jane Fonda threaten to fire McAvoy. ‘He humiliated congressional candidates on my network,’ she says at Sam Waterston, as if that were a thing someone who owned a cable news network would be mad about. Oh no, people might turn off this news channel that has politicians being humiliated, routinely, by the world’s smartest asshole!”
 — Awl pal Alex Pareene considers Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom.”