How Can I Make It About Me?

In a nauseous review of HBO’s The Newsroom, Editorial Director of AOL HuffPost Media Group Howard Fineman performs a feat for the ages and interprets the HBO series as a commentary on… his own publication!

It starts out normal enough. “To all of you media snarks out there trashing Aaron Sorkin for his HBO show The Newsroom I say: take no comfort from the fact that the show sucks,” Fineman writes on HuffPost. “His point about our business — that it needs to remember, revere and renew its commitment to its ideals — is too on-target to ignore.”

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