[lbo-talk] Re: Circulation Plunges at Major US Newspapers

Matt lbo4 at beyondzero.net
Tue Oct 31 13:11:27 PST 2006


On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:10:25PM -0800, Jim Straub wrote:

[...]


> The excellent HBO show the Wire owes its existence to a newspaper strike,
> incidentally; the writer David Simon was on the bargaining committee the
> year the Baltimore Sun tried to take away a bunch of health benefits despite
> sustained revenue growth, leading to a series of strikes, and after they
> were settled Simon was so disgusted with the business side of reporting he
> took a sabatical and started doing the freelance writing that eventually led
> to his TV career. And now, the Wire is 100% union labor. Maybe the future
> of working class critical analysis is in TV as much as print media.

Wow, didn't know that - interesting and thanks for sharing. And I concur how excellent this show is - specifically its implicit criticism of police corruption, the drug war and commentary about poverty and racism. A real thinking-person's television drama.

Matt

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