Sunday, July 12, 2009

Bill Moyers Journal: David Simon - creator of the Homicide: Life on the Streets and The Wire



David Simonbr /a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/"Bill Moyers Journal/abr /br /The executive producer of HBO's critically-acclaimed show THE WIRE, David Simon talks with Bill Moyers about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism today. After a dozen years covering crime for the BALTIMORE SUN, David Simon left journalism to write books and tell stories for NBC and HBO, including his Peabody-winning cop show THE WIRE, which looked at the drug wars and the gritty underbelly of the inner-city. Simon is now producing the pilot for a series about musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans, called TREME.br /br /a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04172009/profile.html"To Listen to the Conversation/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6323968-7898316350672059990?l=dialogic.blogspot.com'//div

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