Summary of Chapo Trap House: The Newsroom

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In "Chapo Trap House: The Newsroom," Jeff Daniels' character, Jeff Newsroom, is a condescending, sexist general who is unappreciative of his subordinates. His ex-girlfriend, Emily Mortimer, comes in to take him on and he is not happy about it. When he brings in another underling, Sam Watterson, Watterson proves to be a terrible producer. Finally, Matthews and O'Donnell from "The Daily Show" make an appearance as Jeff's former bosses.

  • 00:00:00 The Chapo Trap House discusses the West Wing and how the show is better than the newsroom. The show dives into the differences between the two shows, with the newsroom being more about petty gossip and wackiness, while the west wing is about world-building and writing. The Chapo Trap House points out that the West Wing was hit with criticism for its cliche of the walk and talk, but newsroom doesn't have that because it's in a room.
  • 00:05:00 The Chapo Trap House explores the idea of a " worse-case scenario " in which Aaron Sorkin's fictional cable news show, "Jeff Newsroom," actually happened. In this hypothetical, the Tea Party rises to power and Aaron Sorkin's character, Jeff, realizes that he needs to take the news more seriously. This leads him to take the show more seriously and explore the impact of the news on democracy.
  • 00:10:00 The video is a recap of Season 1 of Chapo Trap House, which follows the staff of a fictional cable news show. The staff consists of a conservative commentator, a liberal commentator, and the show's host, Jeff. The staff is constantly arguing and insulting each other, and the only thing that seems to matter to them is the ratings for their show.
  • 00:15:00 Chapo Trap House discusses how Jeff Sessions' decision to remove the chopper that sprayed Truth Canada with a chemical has prompted a war between Jeff's newsroom and the sorority girl. Jeff's hallucinations of Emily Mortimer and Mackenzie McHale serve as a demonstration of his correctness.
  • 00:20:00 In "Chapo Trap House: The Newsroom," Jeff Daniels' character, Jeff Newsroom, is a condescending, sexist general who is unappreciative of his subordinates. His ex-girlfriend, Emily Mortimer, comes in to take him on and he is not happy about it. When he brings in another underling, Sam Watterson, Watterson proves to be a terrible producer. Finally, Matthews and O'Donnell from "The Daily Show" make an appearance as Jeff's former bosses.
  • 00:25:00 In "Chapo Trap House: The Newsroom," the staff of a cable news show come together to cover a major environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. While most of the work is done by women, Jeff's monologues hamper their ability to do their jobs.
  • 00:30:00 In the first episode of season one of "Chapo Trap House," "Jeff the Newsroom" anchor Jeff Newsome opens the show by apologizing for the poor quality of his past news broadcasts. In the background, the Tea Party is growing in strength and Jeff, who is a Republican from Nebraska, begins to worry about the future of his country. Each episode of the show features a guest interview about some aspect of the current political climate.
  • 00:35:00 In "Chapo Trap House: The Newsroom," Jeff Newsroom discusses how his cable news show is going too far by embarrassing politicians. Jane Fonda, the head of the network, gets annoyed with him.
  • 00:40:00 In episode four of Chapo Trap House, Jeff Daniels' character is getting pressure from the suits because Jeff's newsroom is going too hard at the tea party and he's like I have business in front of this Congress so there's that going on. Jeff does his like a personal comment now in the past I've covered stories about pregnancy lady gaga, the wage gap, child care, health care nurses, wandering wombs, but I'd like to apologize like one of the things he apolo he's like in the past other stories that did not like you know lift us up to a higher ground that did not tell the truth about our strength as a people. He's like these aren't facts like what are you talking about doesn't mention the iraq war he doesn't mention iraq war or wall street or any specific failure what are the any of the specific actual failures of journalism because he doesn't think that's what when he thinks that he's really thinking of like having a segment about the kardashians for him that's the way the kardashians like being on the network news channel is worse to him than the iraq war in terms of like i think you're probably journalistic malpractice yeah. He absolutely cares more about that
  • 00:45:00 In the video, Jeff Daniels and an unnamed woman are discussing a potential hit piece on one of the "real housewives" of New Jersey. Daniels is disturbed by the idea, and the woman eventually leaves his apartment. Later, Daniels sees "The Newsroom" on TV and is disturbed by the portrayal of the NRA. He has a date with the woman, and when she brings up guns, he explains that he is an anti-gun Republican. She tells him that she works for Hillary Clinton, to which he responds with "lefties you get [but] you're wrong on guns." They then have sex, and when he wakes up, he realizes that the gun he had in his hand was unloaded.
  • 00:50:00 In the final episode of Chapo Trap House, host Felix Biederman interviews a source who claims that Osama bin Laden was killed 10-20 minutes before the news was announced on television. This causes Biederman to reflect on the state of the news industry and how it has changed over the years.
  • 00:55:00 Jeff Newsroom, while attending a party celebrating their year on the air, accidentally says the n-word. Sam Waterson gets the news and they find out the President is going to be speaking in about two hours. Meanwhile, on the plane, Jeff Daniels pretends to be high and Will McAvoy has an awful high scene. In the end, they report that bin laden has been killed five minutes before the President comes on air.

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In this episode of Chapo Trap House, the hosts discuss the second season of The Newsroom. They found it to be mostly bad, with the main antagonist, Maggie the dizzy blonde, in a worse situation than ever after the show's main protagonist Jeff Newsroom abuses her with logic. The team is unsure of what the third season may have been about.

  • 01:00:00 The Chapo Trap House team discusses the second season of "The Newsroom," which they found to be "mostly [ __ ] ." The show's main antagonist, Maggie the dizzy blonde, is shown to be in a worse situation than ever after the show's main protagonist Jeff Newsroom abuses her with logic. The team is unsure of what the third season may have been about.
  • 01:05:00 In this episode of "Chapo Trap House," the hosts discuss the Jeff Daniels episode of "The Newsroom." In the episode, Jeff Daniels' character is incarcerated for refusing to give up his source. While in jail, Daniels has conversations with a sleazy white cellmate about his career and his opinion of journalists. The other wenches in the jail are also disturbed by Daniels' behavior. Lastly, Daniels is released from jail and is confronted by the father of a girl he had an affair with. The father does not recognize him, and the episode ends with Daniels taking photos of himself and his father.
  • 01:10:00 The Chapo Trap House discusses the Sam Waterston death in the TV show, "The Newsroom." Jeff Newsome, a character in the show, takes out his guitar and plays an improvised song for the other characters to join in. In the prequel scenes, Jeff is a newsman and he is shown caring less about the news. He is born again and his news is God.

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