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  • August 2008

    • Wire' s Snoop Released From Jail After Arrest

      Baltimore Sun  |  Aug 23, 08 1:52 PM CDT

      Wire' s Snoop Released From Jail After Arrest

      (Newser) - The Wire actress Felicia “Snoop” Pearson was briefly detained this week by Baltimore police in connection with a murder trial, the Baltimore Sun reports. Pearson, who herself served time for second-degree murder as a juvenile, is thought to have witnessed a knife attack that left one man dead in 2005. Though she previously cooperated with prosecutors, they had not been able to locate or communicate with the potential witness since April. More »

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      homicide  • Baltimore  • murder trial  • witness  • The Wire

  • July 2008

    • Mad Men, Damages Make History With Emmy Nods

      Associated Press  |  Jul 17, 08 9:11 AM CDT

      Mad Men, Damages Make History With Emmy Nods

      (AP) - Mad Men , AMC's sleek 1950s advertising drama, and FX's legal thriller Damages made Emmy nominations history today as the first basic cable programs to gain best-series nods. HBO's John Adams , meanwhile,  was the overall frontrunner with 23 bids, including a lead-actor nomination for Paul Giamatti's turn as Adams. More »

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      television  • cable TV  • network television  • Emmy Awards  • Lost  • The Wire  • Mad Men

    • Generation Kill On Target

      Variety  |  Jul 10, 08 4:31 PM CDT

      Generation Kill On Target

      (Newser) - From the mean streets of Baltimore to the meaner ones of Baghdad, the force behind The Wire scores a direct hit with HBO's new Generation Kill , writes Brian Lowry for Variety . Following a cast of Marines during the Iraqi invasion’s first 40 days, the 7-episode miniseries may make you forget it's a work of fiction as it "offers offers a chance to see those troops in their full, unfettered, foul-mouthed glory." It begins Sunday. More »

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      television  • Baghdad  • HBO  • The Wire  • Marines  • David Simon

  • January 2008

    • 'Wire' Spotlight Burns Paper

      Washington Post  |  Jan 16, 08 1:25 PM CST

      'Wire' Spotlight Burns Paper

      (Newser) - The portrayal of battered, prize-grubbing  and unscrupulous journalists in HBO's “The Wire”—based loosely on creator David Simon’s years at the downsizing Baltimore Sun —has provoked a furious internet outcry from some former colleagues who can't help but recognize themselves, the Washington Post reports. One highly regarded top editor dragged through the maybe-not-so-fictional muck calls Simon “a very angry guy"; another resents "Simon's dishonest efforts to revise history." More »

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      HBO  • The Wire  • Baltimore Sun  • newsrooms  • David Simon

    • Critics Love Wire 's Media Turn

      Washington Post  |  Jan 6, 08 4:32 PM CST

      Critics Love Wire 's Media Turn

      (Newser) - Entering its last season, HBO's urban drama The Wire "succeeds strikingly at getting what's wrong just right," Tom Shales writes in the Washington Post . “Written and acted to the highest standards of the best TV drama,” the show has dealt with drugs, job loss, and school troubles, and now explores the trials of a major newspaper. More »

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      entertainment  • HBO  • reviews  • TV shows  • The Wire  • Baltimore Sun

  • September 2007

    • Witness Fear Trumps Justice in Baltimore

      Oxford American  |  Sep 2, 07 7:51 AM CDT

      Witness Fear Trumps Justice in Baltimore

      (Newser) - One witness to a double Baltimore police shooting reversed his story in the courtroom and another was driven to tears before publicly repeating what she’d told authorities after the incident. A juror in the eventual mistrial describes his experience in Oxford American , writing that witness intimidation—the defendant sat within arm’s reach of witnesses—was a far more potent force than the pursuit of truth. More »

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      crime  • court  • HBO  • Baltimore  • mistrial  • The Wire  • witness intimidation

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