Romenesko

Huffington Post
John McQuaid notes that David Simon conflates two trends in his HBO show, "The Wire" -- the "yuppification" of newspapers, and the dismantling of newspapers during the Internet age. "These are actually countervailing trends. As newspapers became more professionalized, perhaps they lost some feel for the urban landscape, but their overall quality and ambition rose. In the past ten years, especially at medium-sized papers like the real Sun, cutbacks and corporate hackery have eroded much of that progress. But for Simon, these two trends are one and the same."