Dear David,
Sorry, I don’t see the All the King’s Men subplot. Cedric Daniels is the personification of rectitude. I like the character, but he always struck me as one of David Simon’s less complicated creations. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but this episode of alleged corruption buried in Daniels’ past seems to be a bit of a red herring. I can’t even remember what it was he’s said to have done wrong; I think the allegation dates to when he ran McNulty’s squad. Now you’re forcing me to watch all of the first season again.
I would like to get back to Snoop and Omar and Butchie (what a man, huh?—though they should have tried water-boarding; it’s quite effective, according to many Republicans), but I have to say this, in light of the firing of the editor of the Los Angeles Times: I will not be criticizing David Simon’s Baltimore Sun plot today. The truth is, the battle between David Simon and the Tribune Company is the battle between the Forces of Good and the Forces of Evil. The Forces of Good whine a lot, but I’ll take David Simon’s whining over corporate pillaging, gladly. There’s an astonishing quote today from David Hiller, the publisher of the L.A. Times, who fired the editor (who—and this shows you how bad things have gotten—was the corporate lackey put into the editorship after the previous editors were shit-canned for standing up for their newsroom) and who will be held responsible by God for the gutting of a great American newspaper. Hiller asked, “Can you solve the newspaper industry’s problems by spending more? It’s an attractive theory, but it doesn’t work.”
Of course it doesn’t. Spending more money to gather more news and hire better reporters couldn’t possibly help the newspaper industry, could it?
What a barbarian. David Hiller is the Marlo Stanfield of daily journalism.
Jeff
