David Simon Squares Up His Vulture Interviewer
The Wire creator still leans resolutely toward the print side of journalism.
Jada Yuan’s Vulture Q&A with David Simon starts off with a great deal of talk about Tom McCarthy. The Wire creator addresses the casting of McCarthy for the final season of the HBO series, the real-life inspirations for the slippery reporter character of Scott Templeton and McCarthy’s segue to the more hallowed journalism storytelling ground of Spotlight.
But the exchange for which this interview is going to be remembered comes later. One that Simon sets up by explaining that it’s not the disappearance of newsprint that worries him but rather the dissipation of the newsroom:
“As I often tell people who try to suggest that Internet bloggers can somehow replace the ethos and talent of the newsroom, some of the greatest moments of journalism I ever witnessed were editors spiking stories and not publishing things that were not properly reported or were only partially true, partially reported, or things that they were unsure...
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