"[The Media] have less and less ambition and are
demanding less and less of themselves as arbiters of what is actually
important, of what our problems are and how we’re addressing them. The Wire was
trying to say, at the end, 'Look, if anything in the first four seasons struck
a nerve with you, don’t think for a moment that anyone’s going to address
themselves to it—least of all the watchdogs of society—because their teeth have
been taken out.' They’ve done it to themselves." -David Simon, Interview with Vice, December 2009.
"What if we actually did subject the key players of the
Wire-verse to rigorous bracketological inquiry? If we played corner boys
against dock workers, murder-polices against hoppers, and craven politicos
against enigmatic not-actually-Greek human traffickers, in matchups as
arbitrary and occasionally unjust as life and death on the mean streets of West
Baltimore, would the king stay the king?" -Alex Pappademas, Grantland post announcing a bracket match featuring characters from The Wire, March 5th, 2012.
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