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<p>When promoting <a href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/sorkins-girl-trouble.html" target="_self">Sorkin&#39;s</a> <a href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/sorkins-girl-trouble-ctd.html" target="_self">show</a>, HBO <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/07/23/how-hbo-made-it-look-like-critics-liked-the-newsroom/">abuses</a>&#0160;ellipses:</p>
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<p><em>Time</em>’s James Poniewozik, summarizing his views on &quot;The Newsroom&quot; for non-subscribers, <a href="http://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/21/dead-tree-alert-blowhardball-the-not-so-special-comment-of-hbos-the-newsroom/">flatly declared</a>, &quot;I was not a fan.&quot; Yet the ad makes it sound like he was, burbling, &quot;The pacing is electric…captures the excitement.&quot; <em>Salon</em>’s Willa Paskin is quoted in the ad calling &quot;The Newsroom&quot; &quot;captivating, riveting, rousing.&quot; <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/06/20/newsroom_aaron_sorkin_does_the_daily_show/singleton/">Here’s what she actually wrote</a>: &quot;The results are a captivating, riveting, rousing, condescending, smug,  infuriating mixture, a potent potion that advertises itself as  intelligence-enhancing but is actually just crazy-making.&quot;</p>
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