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The Devil's in the RemoteJuly 25, 2012

A Con-Artist, a Lawyer, 4 Liars and a Few Dancers Walk into a Newsroom

The Newsroom

The only things you need to know about this trainwreck:

  • The nerdy Indian tries to pitch the BigFoot about 3 times to his colleagues, with a powerpoint presentation at that. How has he not been demoted to the gossip rag section already?
  • The women continue to be exasperatingly weak and badly portrayed. From Maggie to all the women Will dates, I barely got to pay attention to the show I was head-desking so often.
  • In his need to be self-righteous and moralizing, Sorkin’s team skipped a whole portion about the gun laws in NYC and made us watch that dreck about Will pointing a guy at a woman.
  • Finally; this happened. Obviously #headdesk

Because the rating’s guy barge into newsrooms to dictate the news

 

  • Did they use Coldplay’s “Fix You” again? What can we do to make Sorkin’s references relevant

 

Shazia is part bionic, part crazy (parts not mutually exclusive), and would be happy conversing solely in TV quotes, forever hopeful she’ll be one-upped in her obscure TV references. She blogs here and microblogs here.

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One last love letter...

April 24, 2021

It has taken us some time and patience to come to this decision. TMS would not have seen the success that it did without our readers and the tireless team that ran the magazine for the better part of eight years.

But… all good things must come to an end, especially when we look at the ever-expanding art and literary landscape in Pakistan, the country of the magazine’s birth.

We are amazed and proud of what the next generation of creators are working with, the themes they are featuring, and their inclusivity in the diversity of voices they are publishing. When TMS began, this was the world we envisioned…

Though the magazine has closed and our submissions shuttered, this website will remain open for the foreseeable future as an archive of the great work we published and the astounding collection of diverse voices we were privileged to feature.

If, however, someone is interested in picking up the baton, please email Maryam Piracha, the editor, at maryamp@themissingslate.com.

Farewell, fam! It’s been quite a ride.

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