My Hero

If I have one for the last few years, it's not Obama but David Simon, former Baltimore Sun police reporter turned TV icon with the non-fiction book Homicide, shows Homicide, something intervening on HBO, The Wire, Generation Kill and a record of bluntly stating what he thinks about newspapers and the media in general.
Remember at the end of The Wire, we see that the newspaper has missed the best and most important stories in the city — political and police corruption, drug wars, union corruption. The newsroom can't even muster up the energy to respond to a fire they can see from their windows. I know this syndrome. I was this syndrome.
Oh, yeah, Simon's on Bill Moyers tonight, 9:30 p.m.