The gimmick at the bleeding heart of The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin’s divisive paean to broadcast journalism, is that the show is set in the very near past, allowing Will McAvoy and the rest of the tireless, occasionally tiresome News Night crew to tackle recent issues with a level of hindsight and perspective only possible in the present. Yesterday, though, reports broke that Sorkin had suddenly started behaving in the most 2012 way possible by firing nearly his entire writing staff.