YES! What is up with the email thing? I can only assume the scene was meant to imply one of two things: 1) Women (even wildly successful ones) am too dumb to grasp technology, or 2) Only the stupidest company in the world would hire a tech person who would devise such an impenetrable email system.

Oh, there is a third idea: Aaron Sorkin is a dumb technophobe.

The first time she failed to send an email correctly, I found it confusing even outside of the li'l sexism problem (a TV producer doesn't know how to send an email? okey doke)—but then I thought maybe I wasn't giving the show enough credit, and that she had sent it to everyone on purpose to be funny/mean. NOPE! I think it's kind of a bad show, but I am also sort of enjoying the way in which it's bad, and I'll probably keep watching.

The email thing was fucking moronic. I sort of wanted to stab that detail in the eye.

However, I'm enough of an idiotic Sorkin fanboy (maybe because I never suffered through Studio 60) to keep watching for another episode or two. Calling it comfort food is spot on, and Sorkin does get a whole lot of mileage out of congratulating his viewers for being oh-so-fucking enlightened. But, it's a hollow and tired trick that sort of works on me. Expressing a heartfelt dedication to truth and justice while a soul-fluffing Radiohead song plays in the background? I'll eat that shit up. However, I'll also kind of hate myself after doing so.

I'll keep watching this show as long as I can keep watching it live with Alison Hallett. The derision is palpable.

We should show The Newsroom at a bar, with Alison sitting next to the big screen, shaking her head in disgust.