Assertion: newsroom | /r/HasProperty | set in recent past
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text: Sorkin decided that rather than have his characters react to fictional news events as on his earlier series, The Newsroom would be set in the recent past and track real-world stories largely as they unfolded, to give a greater sense of realism.
text: you’ll remember that The Newsroom was set in the recent past, so it was able to show us how the media should have covered events that happened in real life, such as the Deepwater Horizon spill or the death of Osama bin Laden.