Links of Note: Jan. 4, 2008
"The Wire" Gets Newsy
HBO's critically lauded drama "The Wire" is moving into the newsroom for its fifth and final season. The show, which has been centered in a variety of Baltimore locales through its four-season run, will set up shop in a Hollywoodized hub of Baltimore's newspaper, The Sun.
But don't count on this being a misty-eyed bit of newspaper nostalgia. According to the Associated Press, "Wire" executive producer David Simon -- a former reporter at The Sun -- has a tempestuous relationship with his former employer.
Semi-Public Comments Bite Political Strategist Real Hard
Mike Huckabee's campaign manager, Ed Rollins, might want to learn the finer points of whispering. Rollins made a variety of pointed comments about presidential candidates while dining at an Iowa restaurant, and it just so happens a blogger was sitting nearby with laptop and fingertips at the ready. Whoops.
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