L’indispensabile ipocrisia di The Newsroom

“The Newsroom” by Aroon Sorkin (Hbo, 2012-2014) has earned a prominent space in the "golden age" of TV series by staging the resistance of a large network newsroom against the exasperation of the news competition and its outcome towards a growing integration between information and entertainment. The paper analyses themes, texts and characters from the series to frame the anomic phase of the impact between new and heritage media. In an age of invoked disintermediation, the series generates some doubts in the selected Hbo audience: should journalism be overcome or rather reclaimed? Is public opinion really freer if abandoned to the flow of information without any professional mediation?