- Actress Emily Mortimer said Bush administration was ‘terrifying’
- The Newsroom created by West Wing producer Aaron Sorkin
- Early reviews have panned the highly anticipated series
The star of highly anticipated TV series The Newsroom has called the American public ‘dangerously uninformed’.
British actress Emily Mortimer, who plays a rebellious producer in the series about a cable news show, explained that she has always been interested in politics and flirted with anarchism when she was younger.
She told salon.com: ‘I can remember when Bush got in for the second time, just feeling like so much of the problem about the way that politics go here is that people are improperly informed.’
She goes on to say that in the UK, the public has more access to foreign news and a better sense of what is going on in the rest of the world.
Mortimer said American news broadcasts were a ‘pretty dicey area’ before describing the Bush administration as ‘terrifying’.
She added: ‘You can’t rely on getting the facts, or getting them presented in a way that is actually objective and makes sense and puts people in a position where they can make informed decisions about who to vote for.’
The 40-year-old actress, who has lived in the U.S. for a decade and holds dual citizenship, has appeared in films including Match Point, Shutter Island and Hugo.
The HBO series – about a TV anchor who has a public meltdown and suddenly finds his inspirational mojo - was expected to be a roaring success after being created by West Wing producer Aaron Sorkin and starring Jeff Daniels. However early reviews have been scathing.
The Newsroom ‘gets so bad so quickly that I found my jaw dropping,’ wrote the New Yorker‘s Emily Nussbaum.
