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The Agitator —
... The Wire’s creator and former Baltimore Sun crime reporter David Simon gets pissed at what an awful job the paper is doing holding the city’s police department accountable. So he dusts off his journalist’s hat and goes out to do the job himself. ...
Zombie Jimmy Olsen
Whiskey Fire —
... about this article from David Simon, creator of TV shows that, like Battlestar Galactica, really aren't very good (angry link bait!). Simon says, essentially, that city newspapers at one time provided an important democratic check on police power, and that now that city newspapers are swirling into the crapper, so much for that noise. ...
Reason Morning Links: Yoo Memos See Sunshine, Sanford Makes Sense, Simon Picks Up His Notebook
Hit & Run —
... • The Wire co-creator David Simon gets fed up with the Baltimore Sun's lackluster coverage of the city's police force, dusts off his reporter's notebook, and hits the pavement himself. ...
On The Beat
Suburban Guerrilla —
... I really can’t argue with David “The Wire” Simon about what he says here, because he’s right. But it’s also true that in my experience, that even when the beats were fully staffed, police reporters were the most often compromised. They fell in love with being able to have a few beers with the cops or hear their often riotous tales of their daily work, and as a result, would sit on any truly incriminating information involving the same police they’d come to think of as friends. (I’d hasten to add that these reporters were a distinct ...
Another Newspaper Closes
Hit & Run —
... media company called AnnArbor.com LLC will be launched later this year. In addition to publishing continuously online, AnnArbor.com will publish a print edition twice a week. I suppose the town still has the student-run Michigan Daily but, speaking as a former Daily staffer, I don't think that counts. Bonus links: For an optimistic take on the future of journalism as newspapers disappear, go here. For a pessimistic take, go here. For my take -- or part of it, anyway -- go here.
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Online News is Not Arianna Huffington’s Dastardly Plot to Destroy the Newspaper Industry, and Other Reality-Based Observations
Firedoglake —
... Simon seems to have reached the conclusion that any news organization that doesn't cover the pie eating contests of Baltimore is woefully inadequate, those were the days, etc etc. I don't recall anyone ever covering the Atlantic Yards as meticulously as ...
Jane Hamsher: Online News is Not Arianna Huffington's Dastardly Plot to Destroy the Newspaper Industry And Other Reality-Based Observations
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Simon seems to have reached the conclusion that any news organization that doesn't cover the pie eating contests of Baltimore is woefully inadequate, those were the days, etc etc. I don't recall anyone ever covering the Atlantic Yards as meticulously as ...
