"The Max series simply takes Clinton — and politics — out of it."
Oh, sure it does. I'll just bet. Totally objective.
Posted on 03/14/2024 8:43:54 AM PDT by simpson96
No one wants to relive the 2016 presidential election. (Or, indeed, the 2020 one.)
That was always the challenge facing “The Girls on the Bus,” Max’s compulsively watchable and startlingly apolitical dramedy about the agony of political reporting. Inspired by former New York Times reporter Amy Chozick’s memoir “Chasing Hillary,” which chronicles her years following Clinton on the campaign trail, the series explores the beat’s grubby compromises, temptations and rewards by fictionalizing almost every aspect of the source material. In so doing, it turns a memoir about a globally significant event — and missteps that contributed to the outcome — into an ensemble show that locates its narrative stakes in epiphanies about writing and friendship. Also female solidarity, political differences be damned.
(snip) the 10-episode season imports the structure but strips out the specific content of Chozick’s real observations and highly consequential dilemmas (over how to cover Clinton, among other things — and whether she and other journalists became Putin’s “puppets” in the course of chasing the Podesta-leaks story). The result is a frequently funny drama following four fictional reporters as they cover a flawed female candidate in the lead-up to a fictional Democratic National Convention.
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The result is gripping stuff if you’re interested in writerly struggles (which I am). And in thinking through the grimy ethics of what these kinds of journalists sometimes have to do (extract confidences and then betray them, essentially committing private harms for the sake of an abstract Public Good). The series works best when it gives these characters room to act out as the passionate weirdos they are (Gugino and Behnam especially). The dialogue crackles when they grapple with what journalism is, whether objectivity is possible and how sources should be cultivated, audiences served, bosses appeased, stories funded or careers built.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"The Max series simply takes Clinton — and politics — out of it."
Oh, sure it does. I'll just bet. Totally objective.
They still want to push this Russia collusion hoax, that was bought and paid for by Hillary
‘The Boys On The Bus’, by Timothy Crouse is fine book, focusing on the press that were covering the McGovern ‘72 campaign.
No one wants to relive the 2016 presidential election.
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Pretty sure I’m not the only one who disagrees with this......
Cankle-icious!
Yeah, the 2016 election was one of the high points of my life. Watching those smarmy, horrified lib news anchors as the results rolled in was priceless. I tuned in to MSNBC just to watch Maddow and her gang have heart attacks as Trump won FL, NC, PA, etc.
The target audience for shows like this is people with mental illness. They are addicted to these shows.
The story is behind a paywall.
Did you get to see the whole article?
Were they on a yellow school bus?
“Who doesn’t love a yellow school bus, right? Raise your hand if you love a yellow school bus! The school bus takes us there!”
“No one wants to relive the 2016 presidential election.”
Are you kidding? It was glorious!
Still a hard no
She'll come in at the last minute (around convention time) to "save" the Democrat party. That way she won't have to go through the grueling primary process.
The Dem cheating machine will be in place by then, so Hillary won't have to do anything, just give inane campaign speeches and wait for them to anoint her queen.
If a judge said 6 months in county jail or watch this show. I’d do the time.
Still have to swallow the baloney
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Pretty sure I’m not the only one who disagrees with this......
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No one should go to bed hungry
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jpyKuzoFW40
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