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Wire Day 2000, nice job

January 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Today, of course, includes the debut of The Wire: Season Five.

Some odds and ends to (foolishly) attempt to sate you until 9pm.

Baltimore Sun coverage:

The local reaction, the media piece about Simon’s experience at the Sun influencing this season, and the rest*

Jacob Weisberg’s (Slate) recycled analysis for Season Four.

Another Slate article (hot document) about an apparent “suppressed scene”

Star-Ledger says, “Pay attention to the first scene.”

NYT: No Happy Ending in Dickensian Baltimore


* This previously said “Burns’ hatred of the Sun” - it should have read Simon’s hatred, as it does now. I also changed the wording to better express the article’s subject matter.

Tags: Culture · Media · Television · The Wire

3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Steve Lieber // Jan 9, 2008 at

    “Burns’ hatred?”

  • 2 Keith O'Brien // Jan 9, 2008 at

    Steve - my mistake. It should have read Simon’s - I’ve corrected it now - thanks for the heads up.

  • 3 ethan salto // Jan 10, 2008 at

    “Pay attention to the first scene.”

    I think that’s intended to serve as a metaphor for the press — and the gullibility of the public for believing what they read.

    More Wire-blogging here.

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