Romenesko

Baltimore Sun
The newsroom scenes in HBO's "The Wire" are the Achilles' heel of Season 5, says David Zurawik, "with mainstream entertainment sacrificed to journalistic shop talk, while fact and fiction are mashed up in the confusing manner of docudrama." He notes: "Whether I praise or pan [show creator and former Sun staffer David] Simon's made-for-TV version of the paper, the fact that I work for The Sun means I am likely to be mistrusted, if not damned. So be it - I am not the first journalist to write about matters involving his or her own paper." || Read Simon's response.
> Sun editor says his paper has nothing to be defensive about (NPR/Misc.)