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"Newspaper fabulists disgrace their papers," writes
David Plotz. "No editor would willfully ignore evidence of a reporter manufacturing stories the way 'The Wire''s Sun editors do. It would never be worth it." ||
Ezra Klein: "If the editors were really the Machiavellian careerists Simon portrayed them as, they would have eagerly tossed
Scott Templeton under the bus." ||
Teresa Wiltz: "I wanted to see Scott tarred and feathered and marched through the newsroom." || PLUS: Show creator
David Simon talks to
Heather Havrilesky and
Alan Sepinwall. || Columns by
Cynthia Littleton and
Richard Byrne.