I got your dramatic tension right here

Like every white person¹, I like The Wire. Okay, I think The Wire is the best television series ever made. To demonstrate this, I am prepared to fight you if it becomes necessary.

In an interview towards the end of Season 5 (the last season, which I haven’t watched yet, so shut up), David Simon said:

If you’re saying that there needed to be scenes of the Internet interacting with journalism and bringing down journalism, I will now write you a scene: Interior, garden apartment anywhere. A white male, mid-30s, sits at a laptop computer in his underwear, linking to a Baltimore Sun story. He then scratches his left testicle until satisfied and continues to type commentary about that story onto his blog. Cut to drug corner, and on to the next scene.

Possibly unfair - those testicles aren’t going to scratch themselves, are they? - but quite funny anyway. Some “citizen journalism” is vitally important; some is surprisingly banal; mostly, it doesn’t exist.

1. I reserve the right to call myself white. [↩]