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CBS Celebrates 'Very Powerful,' 'Fantastic' Liberal Reporter Movie

By Matthew Balan | December 2, 2015, 6:07 PM EST

a surpassingly gratifying experience, one that former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon, at the film's ...

WashPost Critic: Heroic Liberal Reporter Movie Like 'Watching Porn'

By Tim Graham | November 15, 2015, 8:50 AM EST

a surpassingly gratifying experience, one that former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon, at the film's ...

MRC's Notable Quotables: TV 'News' Anchor Berates Trump Over Immigration

By Rich Noyes | August 31, 2015, 9:15 AM EDT

property values and not-in-my-backyardism, you know.” — Television writer-producer David Simon in ...

HBO Producer David Simon Says: Phrase 'Social Engineering' Is Racist, Too

By Clay Waters | August 22, 2015, 6:28 PM EDT

Fresh off condemning libertarian "freedom" rhetoric as racist, TV producer David Simon, creator of the acclaimed HBO series "The Wire" and others, talked to Marcelo Rochabrun of the ... Racism HBO New York David Simon NB ...

HBO Writer-Producer David Simon Bashes Libertarian Impulses, Rhetoric as Racist

By Clay Waters | August 19, 2015, 2:06 AM EDT

Television writer-producer David Simon, a Baltimore denizen whose acclaimed HBO series The Wire ... to integrate. Show Me a Hero, a six-episode series about the controversy, created by David Simon ... magazine Reason. CyberAlerts Racism HBO New York Times David Simon Michael Kimmelman NB ...

'The Wire' Creator Simon Blames Bill Clinton for Mass Incarceration of Black Men, Praises Ga. Republicans for Reforms

By Ken Shepherd | August 13, 2015, 5:48 PM EDT

The creator of HBO's The Wire, former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon, has come out and blamed former President Bill Clinton for the large number of young black men in America's prisons, the Daily Beast's Marlow Stern reported today. Simon also praised Georgia, a reliably Republican, ...

Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) Boycotts Bibi's Speech, Then Virtually Copies May 2011 Press Release to Effusively Praise It

By Tom Blumer | March 6, 2015, 11:18 PM EST

Her news release makes no mention of that. Her spokesman, David Simon, said her objection was over ...

Top HBO TV Producer David Simon Embraces Marx Diagnosis: 'My Country Is a Horror Show'

By Tim Graham | December 8, 2013, 6:35 PM EST

David Simon, the toast of Hollywood and the cultural elite for creating the inner-city Baltimore crime drama "The Wire" for HBO, unleashed a left-wing jeremiad on the "Two Americas" ... banishment of private health insurers. [HT: Baltimore's own @dangainor] HBO David Simon ...

Screenwriter Furious at Zimmerman Verdict: If I Were Black, I'd Pick Up a Brick to Throw

By Tim Graham | July 16, 2013, 11:47 AM EDT

Via The Wrap, we learned that on his blog “The Audacity of Despair,” former Baltimore Sun reporter and "The Wire" creator David Simon bluntly attacked the George Zimmerman verdict, suggesting ... Wire" as his favorite TV show in 2008. [HT: Dan Isett] David Simon George Zimmerman ...

Bozell Column: The Polluted Oscar Documentary Pool

By Brent Bozell | December 8, 2012, 12:19 PM EST

damage on future generations of Americans.” TV producer David Simon rants “The drug war is a Holocaust in ...

The Great Newspaper Bailout

By BMI Staff | August 4, 2015, 10:49 AM EDT

to push for aid that doesn't make them look bad. David Simon, a former Baltimore Sun reporter ...