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 "The best video essay source on the web." (Roger Ebert) This is a web site built around original video essays and critical, personal writing about movies, TV, music, comics and whatever else interests its contributors. Co-founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, TV critic for New York Magazine, and Ken Cancelosi, it is published by Seitz and Cancelosi and overseen by editor-in-chief Kevin B. Lee and managing editor Max Winter.

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THE NEWSROOM RECAP 3: THE 112TH CONGRESS

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As much as I believe Aaron Sorkin is, to some extent, correct about the brokenness of our news system, as I’ve watched "The Newsroom," I’m finding myself increasingly sympathetic with the people he’s angry at, the ones who knuckle under to commercial pressure and the terms of their contracts as Will McAvoy and the News Night team rise above them.
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  • By Alyssa Rosenberg
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  • July 8, 2012 10:55 PM
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THE NEWSROOM RECAP 2: NEWSROOM 2.0

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For Aaron Sorkin’s characters, doing your job and falling in love are often inseparable processes.
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  • By Alyssa Rosenberg
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  • July 2, 2012 1:52 AM
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VIDEO ESSAY: Sorkinisms, by Kevin T. Porter: A Writer Under a Microscope

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I don't know what to think of this video. But I know what its creator, Kevin T. Porter, wants me to think of it.
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  • By Kevin T. Porter and Ken Cancelosi
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  • June 27, 2012 8:55 AM
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