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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 ...

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 ...