Judging from the title, it depicts an imaginary news "story" behind the scenes.
Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) is a favored by the audience favorite anchorman, he is eight o 'clock flagship of the days in ACN television network "evening News" News (Night) has good ratings. Career success excited McAvoy, he also therefore become a complacent, cynical. In order to achieve their own purposes, he often regardless of the consequences, don't care about other people's feelings, his personality makes him no popularity, his work on the team no one like him. But a "accident" and let his mind and body is hurt, his career fell for the first time. After the end "furloughs" McAvoy returned to their jobs, only to find that most of his former employees have job-hopping to other you, he was forced to cooperate with a group of new members of you.
McAvoy's boss, this ACN network news department minister Charlie Skinner (Sam Waterston) is a conformism and did something wrong and have not repented of the man, "evening news" of the "new" let him feel very uncomfortable. Charlie hopes to add to the program Will return to a standard: the press legend Edward r. Murrow and Walter Cronkite set the standard. To that end, he hide from Will secretly hired a group of new employees, including the ability to inspire enthusiasm of Will and let him play to full potential executive producer MacKenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer). Ready or not, no matter Will Charlie had determined to use his way to reshape the "evening news" program.
MacKenzie McHale experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan just 26 months of "embedded experience", has a new cognition on journalism. She used to and Will have a romantic relationship, know that although his appearance indifference, cynical, underneath the surface is a man full of idealism. MacKenzie's ability to clear Will, but she must let him make a change. Therefore, MacKenzie to Will issued "command" : he must give up the past means that made him famous, change "cater to the audience, duplicity" approach. In MacKenzie, Will only sincerely to report the news, faithfully restore the truth of events, to play out his greatest potential.
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