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March 19, 2008

The Decline of the News, by The Wire's Executive Producer

Does the News Matter to Anyone Any More?, by David Simon:

Isn't the news itself still valuable to anyone? In any format, through any medium -- isn't an understanding of the events of the day still a salable commodity? Or were we kidding ourselves? Was a newspaper a viable entity only so long as it had classifieds, comics and the latest sports scores?

David Simon, a Baltimore Sun reporter from 1983-95, is executive producer of HBO's "The Wire." The final season of the drama depicts the struggles of a present-day newspaper.

Posted at 10:44 PM in Mediating the News |

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