Article in The Contrarian by Meredeth Blake, 9/4/25

Headline:  “Culture recs: The Paper Satirizes the Sorry State of Journalism in 2025”

“On most days I’m more likely to cry about the current state of journalism than I am to laugh. But this very loose spinoff of The Office manages to find the (extremely dark) humor in the story of Ned Sampson (Domnhall Gleason, doing a seamless American accent) the idealistic new editor-in-chief of a struggling Midwestern newspaper called the Toledo Truth Teller . . . a nepotism hire who nevertheless believes in the importance of local journalism, Ned immediately attempts to revitalize the publication . . .”

Read the full article at:

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/culture-recs-the-paper-satirizes