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Interviewed by Jason Whitlock / 4-9-2009

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INFO & STATS: Author, Journalist, Writer/Producer | Formerly of the Baltimore Sun.

TOPICS: The impact of his TV show “The Wire”; 5 seasons on HBO; the world he had been reporting on for so many years | Reaction to what’s happening to newspapers; bad for the industry and communities | The “bonus” scheme; not caring what type of paper the Baltimore Sun had become towards the community | The loss of newspapers and it’s impact | Being a newspaperman without a newspaper | Government able to save newspapers? | A sixth season or movie? | Favorite season of “The Wire”; season 4 the prequel | Really not having a favorite season; season five the end of the story | Michael’s character in season’s four and five | No Emmy nods for the show in season four | Characters’ true life counterparts | Omar Little’s popularity on the show | The next generation of drug dealers | No story to justify a movie | The “Drug War in America”; a war on the under-class | Those who have a vested interest in saying things “are fine”.

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