Good TV This Week: ‘The Newsroom’s’ Mixed Reactions

EntertainmentAfter viewing the pilot and several subsequent episodes, I found Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom” to be full of brilliance — inspiring, funny and wonderfully acted.  But the show,  premiering tonight (6/24) on HBO, has taken a critical drubbing from coast to coast, accused of such ills as being “intellectually self-serving” (Time) and “crammed with incessant gibber-jabber” (The Washington Post).   Well. I liked that Sorkin got on his soap box when he wrote “The Newsroom.”  When a gifted writer with something …