• By Richard Lawson
    Jan 4, 2008 2:13 PM 1,031
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    And Then to The University

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    LOSSST!
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    Lost Things

    As has been reported several times, the new season of HBO's The Wire will focus on a fictional version of The Baltimore Sun. We'll see a depiction of a beleaguered paper that faces budget cuts and bureau closings, which is definitely familiar territory for the real Sun. What do you get when an important television show that no one is watching portrays an important medium that no one is reading? A sad and lonely little ouroboros, methinks.


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