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fromThe New Yorker
4 hours agoThe Offices Only a Newsperson Could Love
Local American newsrooms often occupy shabby, utilitarian buildings that reveal resource constraints, quirky character, and deep community attachment.
Peacock's The Paper, Apple TV+'s The Morning Show, FX's The Lowdown, and Netflix's The Woman in Cabin 10 offer their own visions of who newspeople currently are and what the news should be. Their genres vary, as does the degree to which they actually assess current media culture and whether it's under attack. But they all share a baseline amount of respect for and hero worship toward their protagonists, which feels sometimes comforting, sometimes naïve.