The Paper<\/a>,<\/em> about a team of idealistic underdogs trying to revive the decaying fortunes of a legacy newspaper in Toledo, Ohio.<\/p>\n\u201cI kind of think it\u2019s the same issue, because the tech is what\u2019s killing the newspapers,\u201d Daniels tells Vanity Fair.<\/em> \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for eBay and Google and social media, there would still be much more economic life in the newspapers.\u201d Those conglomerates decimated print advertising. Now journalists are facing another existential crisis: the possibility of being completely replaced by large language models, like ChatGPT, that can generate content on the cheap. \u201cThe changes in tech are what\u2019s hollowing out newspapers more than anything else,\u201d Daniels says.<\/p>\nThe Paper<\/em>, which he co-created with Michael Koman<\/strong> (Nathan for You<\/em>), forces its characters to double down on their ingenuity. They are out in the wild, battered by economic and social forces far beyond their control\u2014but they are hunting and gathering to survive.<\/p>\n\n<\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\nSabrina Impacciatore and Domhnall Gleeson propose a plan in The Paper.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/span>Courtesy of PEACOCK.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nDomhnall Gleeson<\/strong> stars as Ned Sampson, the energized new editor of the Toledo Truth Teller<\/em>\u2014the neglected and largely forgotten part of a broader paper-product company. The Paper<\/em> is a direct spin-off from The Office,<\/em> with actor Oscar Nu\u00f1ez<\/strong> reprising his role as Oscar Martinez from the Dunder Mifflin days. Chelsea Frei<\/strong> costars as a reporter who\u2019s the only other competent member of the staff, while Sabrina Impacciatore<\/strong> (best known as the Italian hotel manager from The White Lotus<\/em> season two) is a backstabbing managing editor with little in the way of journalistic scruples.<\/p>\nThose on the team fight to do right by their community while resisting efforts to further erode the newspaper\u2019s capabilities. Daniels says the show was inspired by countless publications across the country that are clinging to life after seeing their revenue and readership plummet due to mismanagement.<\/p>\n
\u201cZombie<\/em> is the term. I\u2019ve heard them called ghost newspapers,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a thing where a conglomerate or private-equity company or something will buy the newspaper. They\u2019ll fire the reporters. They keep the people selling the ads, and the delivery system. They cut costs to the bone. It looks like a newspaper, but it doesn\u2019t cover\u2026anything.\u201d<\/p>\nBoth Upload<\/em> and The Paper<\/em> are in a constant state of gaming out best- and worst-case scenarios. \u201cI think people have an instinct that AI could completely screw us over somehow, and it\u2019s being rushed into. And we\u2019re kind of dancing around that comedically in Upload,<\/em>\u201d Daniels says. \u201cThe Paper<\/em> is a similar situation, I think, where people are like, Something could be better about journalism.\u201d<\/p>\nIn Upload,<\/em> changes in tech go a step further\u2014they\u2019re hollowing out our souls. Once its characters are hooked on the state-of-the-art software that simulates existence, they have no choice but to keep paying for it. \u201cThe big thing in Upload<\/em> season four is the company wants to monetize all this AI,\u201d Daniels says.<\/p>\nIt all sounds bleak, but there\u2019s typically a buried optimism in Daniels\u2019s shows as well. Upload<\/em> and The Paper<\/em> both follow people trying to move forward into their brave new worlds without losing themselves.<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\nThe Paper<\/em>‘s overwhelmed staff: Chelsea Frei, Romona Young, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Eric Rahill and Oscar Nu\u00f1ez,<\/p>\n<\/span>Courtesy of PEACOCK.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nMost interviews take place over Zoom these days, but Daniels agrees to meet in an analog way: face to face. He chooses Esau\u2019s Cafe, a tiny seaside diner in Carpinteria, California, because he likes its blueberry muffins\u2014even though he doesn\u2019t order one.<\/p>\n
In addition to having finished Upload<\/em> and starting The Paper<\/em>, he\u2019s also executive-producing Hulu\u2019s new King of the Hill<\/em> reboot, which picks up 15 years after the long-running animated series ended its run in 2010. Mike Judge<\/strong> returns as the stoic voice of Texas propane enthusiast Hank; Kathy Najimy<\/strong> is still indefatigable Peggy; and Pamela Adlon<\/strong> is the grown-up Bobby, now an Asian-fusion chef. The original series, cocreated by Judge and Daniels, derived much of its humor from its repressed Middle Americans clashing with volatile cultural changes\u2014and that part, at least, hasn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg Daniels is an old-fashioned kind of futurist. The TV writer and veteran showrunner is known for the American version of The Office, as well as Parks and Recreation, King of the Hill, and Space Force\u2014all series about people struggling to keep their footing while being tossed about by changing times. He also just wrapped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6294,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-190426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-the-office","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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