“The Wire” creator cast as the angriest man on TV
January 1, 2008
“The Wire creates a vision of official Baltimore as a heavy, self-justified bureaucracy, gripped by its own byzantine logic and criminally unconcerned about the lives of ordinary people, who enter it at their own risk."
So writes Mark Bowden in the January issue of Atlantic Monthly, in a piece entitled “The Angriest Man on Television.” It might be of no surprise that the title references “The Wire” creator (and former Baltimore Sun reporter) David Simon.
In his lengthy look at Simon, Bowden aims to reveal differences between the real Baltimore and Simon’s fictional Baltimore (”like Dickens’s London, Simon’s Baltimore is a richly imagined caricature of its real-life counterpart, not a carbon copy”). He also writes of Simon’s distaste for his former employer, The Sun, and the paper’s role in the upcoming final season of the series.
Read for yourself, and let us know whether you think Simon’s portrayal of “Body-more, Murdaland” is dead accurate or embellished for HBO.
JACKIE SAUTER, Multimedia Editor
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How’s this for some clarity:
Mark Bowden is a career-long friend of Bill Marimow and John Carroll, going back to their years together at the Philly Inquirer. And Marimow hired him back as a columnist at the paper about a year ago. And, oh, his book was warmly reviewed in the Inquirer by the reporter that Simon accuses of fabrications, and Bowden, in turn, blurbed the fabricating reporter’s book.
Does all the hyperbolic effort to describe Simon’s emotions and allegiances now seem, well, a little hypocritical?