The New York Times – HBO’s Newsroom by David Carr

Posted by Colleen Murray on June 24, 2012
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HBO’s ‘Newsroom’ as a Map for CNN

 

CNN, which has long struggled to locate an anchor for its 8 p.m. hour, may have finally found him.

Will McAvoy is handsome, forthright and authoritative, with just enough irascibility and skepticism to seem provocative. He believes in the primacy of news, that truth is not the hole in the middle of the doughnut and that good information will help the body politic find the angels of its better nature.

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