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more about #thewire more comments → Nick Denton: 100 best quotes from The Wire. (Oh how I still miss that show.) #tips #video #thewire more » germane: So, okay, you are comfortable getting your news from multiple "observers" who are not bound by any communal or professional standards of how to report... more » Motoko Kusanagi: "free to subscribers only" more » John Thompson: While I don't think Simon's Plan to Save Newsmedia is sound, I think his greater point about the difference between blogs and journos is valid. I'll ... more » Hunter Walker: I don't entirely get the Simon hate on here. It's hard to get riled up about newspaper publishers setting online sub rates together when news aggregat... more » sloanish: God bless you Cajunboy, but you couldn't be more wrong if you were the wrongest. Newspapers have to change, but if they don't change and simply die o... more » RandomLunatic: David Simon needs to LET GO. He has found his thing, what he does best. He tells stories. Gripping, gritty, good stories. I'd watch just about anythin... more » HarmonyArgeius: You should include less of Simon's quote. When you include as much as you have he is much more persuasive than you. more » VoxPopuli: You overlook one big problem: Anyone who is "reporting" for free has an agenda. Paid journalists have an agenda too, to an extent, even those most fai... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: superficially engaged careerists -- yes, there were those in the ranks of the chain dailies, getting their tickets punched in east bumfuck nowhere and... more » GiuseppeKapish: Just out of curiosity, is 'superficially-engaged, careerist professional journalists' some kind of online code for 'professional journalist who actual... more » Tremonius: Here's the way I've seen Above-the-Line journalism work. A reporter has an assignment about War Vets and Trauma Residue, say. She goes to interview a ... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: public meetings are often kabuki with the real agenda deals compromises and plans laid out well in advance sitting thru the meetings provides the illu... more » Solomon Grundy: The San Francisco and New York markets are not good examples of how local online investigative journalism works in general. Does Louisville have its v... more » DeloresTermite: The author somehow forgot to include the paragraph from the transcript of David Simon's testimony that follows the one that he isolated above: "...Yo... more » -
#printisdead
David Simon Still Dead-Wrong, Now Encouraging Newspapers to Commit Federal Crimes
Back in May David Simon, creator of The Wire, asked lawmakers to relax the nation's anti-trust laws so newspaper owners could get away with collusion. Now he's telling the New York Times and Washington Post to flout the laws completely. More » -
#citizenjournalism
David Simon: Dead-Wrong Dinosaur
The creator of the brilliant television series The Wire today asked Congress to legalize monopolistic collusion by newspapers. Only they can really cover City Hall, he said. Apparently he hasn't been there in a while.
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#mediacrack
Layoffs at Men's Health and Women's Health?
In your blizzardy Monday media column: rumored layoffs at Men's Health, David Simon is righteously angry again, Ladies Home Journal's integrity—its most valuable asset, next to yarn—is questioned, and more! More » -
#stalkerdeluxe
The Dickensian Aspect
Who sat next to me in celebrity hotspot Cafe Grumpy today? Clark Johnson, a.k.a. heroic city editor Gus Haynes from The Wire! Of course he is a big fan* of Gawker: More » -
#sadthings
The Ghostly Remains of The Wire's Set
The masterpiece of television's modern age, The Wire, came to an end last year. Everyone just left the soundstage, trash-strewn and abandoned and forgotten. Someone recently took photos of the ruins. They're sad. More » -
#emmys
The Wire Was Robbed
All these shows—nominated either for best dramatic series (the first six) or best comedy series (the latter five) in this year's Emmys—are perfectly worthy contenders. And the final season of The Wire, HBO's gritty drama set in a corrupt and decaying Baltimore, wasn't quite the climax that fans of the David Simon show had hoped for. But it's an injustice that such a brilliant piece of work, which turned the dismal failures of public policy into heartbreaking human tragedy, should have ended its run without a single nod. More » -
