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The Wire’s final season and the story everyone missed

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  1. smoontjes
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    Title is a little clickbaity but trust me, it's worth the read. If you are not convinced, just read this one paragraph to get a taste of the prose lol

    Title is a little clickbaity but trust me, it's worth the read. If you are not convinced, just read this one paragraph to get a taste of the prose lol

    Because the thing I can’t leave alone, the thing that makes me giddy as a schoolgirl is this: Whatever else I am — a traitorous apostate to newsprint, the angriest hack in television, a kicker of small dogs — you must acknowledge that I am now, also, the newly crowded King of Meta. That’s right. I am your new lord sovereign of buried, latent, subtextual argument. I dragged it past sarcasm, past cynicism, and all the way to balls-out snide. Crown me up and kneel, ya bitches.

    9 votes
  2. elight
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    I've read of this meta, over the years: a consequence of newspaper mergers and layoffs would inevitably lead to anemic state and local news coverage leading to increased corruption. I can't say...

    I've read of this meta, over the years: a consequence of newspaper mergers and layoffs would inevitably lead to anemic state and local news coverage leading to increased corruption.

    I can't say whether corruption is worse now. The absence of information perhaps makes saying so an unfalsifiable fact.

    3 votes