Wendell Pierce as Bunk Being called the best show on television is a hell of a burden to carry. Season 4 of HBO’s drama The Wire won wide acclaim from critics, if not Emmys or Golden Globes noms, and show mastermind David Simon has set up this fifth and final season as a coda for [...]
How weird was it to watch the scene on HBO’s The Wire in which the fictional editor of the Baltimore Sun announces newsroom cuts, starting with the foreign bureaus but encompassing jobs in the main newsroom as well? Sunday, James O’Shea, Los Angeles Times editor, was forced out for resisting newsroom cuts that would have [...]
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