The star of highly anticipated TV series The Newsroom has called the American public  'dangerously uninformed'.

British actress Emily Mortimer, who plays a rebellious producer in the series about a cable news show, explained that she has always been interested in politics and flirted with anarchism when she was younger.

She told salon.com: 'I can remember when Bush got in for the second time, just feeling like so much of the problem about the way that politics go here is that people are improperly informed.'