Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Bill Moyers Interviews The Wire Creator David Simon

Bill Moyers interviewed David Simon last week on The Journal. Simon created The Wire, the best TV series ever. The video is online on the site as is the transcript.

The interview isn't so much about a TV show, as the state of today's cities and journalism, just like the series. If this won't convince you to watch The Wire, nothing will.

"The executive producer of HBO's critically-acclaimed show THE WIRE, David Simon talks with Bill Moyers about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism today. After a dozen years covering crime for the BALTIMORE SUN, David Simon left journalism to write books and tell stories for NBC and HBO, including his Peabody-winning cop show THE WIRE, which looked at the drug wars and the gritty underbelly of the inner-city."

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