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NEWS ABOUT: The Wire

The Wire stories: 14 news summaries
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 Best TV Series of the '00s 

Joss Whedon, Judd Apatow, HBO prominently featured

Nov 13, 09 2:49 PM CST
(Newser) - From the standard (No. 16, Friday Night Lights) to the quirky (No. 29, Wonder Showzen), the long-running (No. 8, Lost) to the canceled-too-soon (No. 4, Freaks and Geeks), The Onion runs down the 30 best shows of the '00s:
  • No. 1, The Wire: This drama “unfolded like
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entertainment • television • Lost • The Office • The Sopranos • TV shows • Arrested Development • Judd Apatow • The Wire • TV series • Battlestar Galactica • The West Wing • Friday Night Lights • Undeclared • Wonder Showzen • Freaks and Geeks

 Go to Harvard, 
 Study The Wire 

Series focuses on different aspects of urban life

Nov 2, 09 12:40 PM CST
(Newser) - The Wire is about to get an Ivy League makeover. Harvard plans to offer a course on the HBO series about life in Baltimore's ghettos, the New York Post reports. The show "has done more to enhance our understanding of the challenges of urban life and the problems of... More »

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entertainment • television • higher education • The Wire • Harvard

Overanalysis

The True Meaning of Obama's Reading List

Prez hunkers down with thrillers, Friedman

Aug 25, 09 11:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is on vacation, and that means it’s the media’s sacred duty to overanalyze his summer reading plans. John Dickerson of Slate delves into the meaning behind what Obama’s packing:
  • The Way Home by George Pelecanos
  • Lush Life by Richard Price
  • Hot
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Barack Obama • reading • vacation • The Wire • Thomas Friedman • book

(Newser) - How to save newspapers and, in fact, journalism itself? Wire creator (and former newspaperman) David Simon implores the publishers of the New York Times and the Washington Post to start charging for their websites. “Content matters," he writes in the Columbia Journalism Review. "And you must... More »

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New York Times • Washington Post • online news • The Wire • David Simon • newspaper industry • paywall

 10 Most Addictive 
 Shows Ever 

24 takes top honors, followed by Lost, Friends

Jul 21, 09 1:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jack Bauer doesn't even have to torture you to keep you glued to your couch, reports the Daily Telegraph, scoring nearly a fifth of the votes for most addictive show in a survey of some 3000 couch potatoes. “Although crime doesn't pay, as our list reveals, it most certainly... More »

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entertainment • television • Heroes • Lost • The Sopranos • Sex and the City • The Wire • CSI • TV series • Friends

Sports, Edgier Fare Dominate the White House TiVo

Sports channels are expected; edgier fare may surprise you

Apr 8, 09 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you judge a man by the channels he turns to, then President Obama is sporty, but with a hip edge. There’s no chance he passed up a replay of Monday's NCAA men’s basketball championship on his flight home from Iraq, sources tell Politico, but Obama is equally... More »

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Barack Obama • ESPN • Michelle Obama • HBO • Entourage • SpongeBob • The Wire • Hannah Montana • SportsCenter • 2009 NCAA Tournament

OPINION

 Shield Guns Down The Wire 

In crime drama face-off, Mackey has the edge on sheer depravity

Dec 27, 08 2:47 PM CST
(Newser) - When it comes to gritty portrayals of life on the unforgiving streets of an American city, no show is better than The Wire—except The Shield, Chris Petit declares in the Guardian. The crime dramas, with their shaky lens style and foul-mouth approach, shuck romance and expose the oft-forgotten American... More »

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television • crime • police • The Wire • David Simon • The Shield

 Biggest Jerks
 of 2008 

Nickelback, Sarko, and a TV character all incur the Guardian's wrath

Dec 14, 08 7:02 PM CST
(Newser) - As a tumultuous year winds down, the Guardian asks the question on everybody’s mind: who are 2008’s biggest douchebags? A selection:
  • Nicolas Sarkozy: “Good God, man, will you put her away just for a second?”
  • Sarah Palin's advisors: "What you need to do, Sarah,
... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • Mattel • The Wire • Scrabulous • Sarah Palin • Best of 2008

Wire's Snoop Released From Jail After Arrest

Felicia Pearson accused of being uncooperative witness

Aug 23, 08 1:52 PM CDT
(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... More »

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homicide • Baltimore • The Wire • murder trial • witness • Felicia "Snoop" Pearson

Mad Men, Damages Make History With Emmy Nods

Best-series noms are first for basic cable

Jul 17, 08 9:11 AM CDT
(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 • Lost • Emmy Awards • The Wire • network television • Mad Men

TV Review

 Generation Kill On Target 

HBO's miniseries captures soldiers in 'their unfettered, foul-mouthed glory'

Jul 10, 08 4:31 PM CDT
(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... More »

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television • Baghdad • HBO • The Wire • David Simon • Marine • Band of Brothers

'Wire' Spotlight Burns Paper

Show's creator defends portrayal of real-life newsmen

Jan 16, 08 1:25 PM CST
(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... More »

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

Critics Love Wire's Media Turn

Final season 'paints realistic portrait of newsroom'

Jan 6, 08 4:32 PM CST
(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... More »

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

Witness Fear Trumps Justice in Baltimore

Juror recounts
story worthy of
HBO’s ‘Wire’

Sep 2, 07 7:51 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

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