June 1, 2010
Bill Moyers Interviews David Simon
In April of 2009, Bill Moyers sat down with David Simon, creator of HBO’s The Wire, to discuss the creation of his series, the failures of modern journalism, the economics of drug culture and the worldview that informs the show’s unblinking gaze at West Baltimore and its crippled institutions. The interview lasts a shade over 50 minutes, but I can’t help but feel like this is one of the most important and informative conversations I’ll yet witness.
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Are you baiting me to comment, Weichhand? It’s working, except that I’m too busy juking the stats — turning my students B’s into A’s — to watch this again right now. But, as I remember it, this is brilliant and, yes, very important.
Like you said, it worked.
Oh, and did I mention how excited I am to have you joining us? Get to work on that, Luke.
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