From my TVFan blog
“The Paper” continues this week with the wedge between Amanda, the editor in chief, and her staff widening and showing how every bright writer seemingly has the same bright ideas as ever writer before them.
My favorite character doesn’t disappoint me. Amanda continues to put her foot in her mouth with every comment, at least on screen, toward her staff. After insulting and laughing at her staff, Amanda is completely taken back to why she wasn’t invited to a staff birthday party. Go figure. She proceeds to throw her own pity party.
At least this episode focused on the more likely Alex, the managing editor of the paper.
Alex’s had the “sickest idea” of doing a column about the day in the life of a football player.
How cute. I want to tease him about his sick idea but every journalist wet behind the ears has had the same idea of thinking readers really what to read about them doing other people’s jobs. In my early days, I had my own shameful “day in the life” story ideas.
One of the episode’s highlights came when the Alex and Dan, a staff writer, were getting a sports physical and had to turn and cough for a very sexy female doc. Where were those doctors when I got my high school physical?
A good bulk of the show takes place at a Dave Matthew Band’s concert, where Alex asks out Alix, a fellow student, to be his girlfriend via text message. Very 21st century. When I wanted to cowardly ask out a girl, I had to do it by note. She said yes. I’m anxious to see how Amanda, who used to have the hots for Alex, takes the news. If I was a betting man, which I am, I would bet Amanda is just the psycho drama queen we all want her to be.
Oh, btw, didn’t these over privileged teens get the text message on their iPhones that being a David Matthews Band fan is so 10 years ago. That was our over appreciated band. Get your own jerks!
And for about 90 seconds the show actually addressed an actual journalistic issue, albeit briefly. The issue was the balance newsrooms face between giving readers what they want from their newspaper and what editors think readers should want from their newspapers.
Despite an informal survey from students at the high school favoring more football coverage, Amanda was in disagreement saying “it is not the sports paper . . . it is called the newspaper.”
Ugh, I actually agree with her.
This is an issue that is true and dear to most newspapers. While most readers want news of Britney and “controversial” photos of Hanna Montana, editors are often inclined to stick to their hard news guns. Unfortunately, newspapers would probably stop bleeding money if they caved into readers’ demands.
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