"Ubisoft Montreal at least had the sense to make 4’s genocidal hero Kyrati-born, and therefore mercifully non-white; but he is still a passport-holding, accentless American, traipsing into developing nations and possessed of the requisite self-righteousness and entitlement"

That does seem to be the working hypothesis around here.

I'm new to AVClub. Is this supposed to be news or an opinion piece?

So this isn't so much a review of The Newsroom as it's a review of the idea that writers like LIbby Hill aren't real journalists. Which Libby Hill graciously gives a C-.