Ex-Romney aides fact-check 'Newsroom'

[RockaFowler]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2013/07/exromney-aides-factcheck-newsroom-169444.html#.UffpOaI16D0.twitter

In last night's episode of the fictional show, TV producer Jim Harper is covering the Romney express as it winds through New Hampshire but is twice rebuffed on his attempt to board the press bus by a Romney aide who isn't a big fan of Harper's news outlet. When he finally gets on, Harper presses Romney spokespeople for answers that go beyond their talking points and ends up getting kicked off the bus with two other reporters.

A former 2012 Romney spokesman says that['s] obviously pure fiction.

"You all would have heard about that if it had happened" in the real campaign, says Ryan Williams, a Romney campaign spokesman who traveled with the former Massachusetts governor. The show "doesn't seem to be very close to the truth," he adds.

[rurallib]

1. closer to the truth than Romney ever was

[SheilaT]

2. Haven't seen the show, but

saw a clip of it, and the fictional Jim was asking exactly the same questions Rachel Maddow did.

[WCGreen]

4. I liked how all the other reporters were rolling their eyes....

[kentuck]

3. I never thought it was real.

I thought it was intended to show how the media could do their job if they wanted to? Although they use real political events and real people, they show how it could have been reported.