HBO's The Wire as Living Anthropology
(first published Sunday, Jan. 20)
The latest episode of HBO's The Wire – “Not for Attribution” - is airing right now. In this episode another round of budget cuts threatens to bring the already battered Baltimore Sun newspaper to its knees.
Simultaneously, this NY Times headline popped up on my computer.
Los Angeles Times Editor Forced Out
The top editor of The Los Angeles Times has been forced out for resisting newsroom budget cuts, executives at the paper said Sunday, marking the fourth time in less than three years that the highest-ranking editor or the publisher has left for that reason… The Los Angeles Times had a newsroom staff of more than 1,100 people at the start of this decade, but the number has declined to below 900, officials say. Its weekday circulation has dropped to about 800,000, from 1.1 million.
The LA Times and the Baltimore Sun are both owned by Tribune Media, taken over just last month by Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell, self-nicknamed the “Grave Dancer.”
Watching tonight’s episode (yesterday, as new episodes are available one week early On Demand), my husband turned to me and said, "The Wire is like watching living anthropology."
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