David Simon rants about New York City

The Wire creator David Simon rants about New York City:

I mean, here is a fact... an honest to God fact: last year, there were more corpses on the three Law & Order franchises, which were all set in Manhattan... there were more dead people shown on that show than there were actual homicides in Manhattan.


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Submitted by crazymonk on Mon, 01/07/2008 - 11:53am.

i sympathize with his ire at ny-centrism, but getting upset at Law & Order's body count seems like he's clutching at angry little straws.

liam | Mon, 01/07/2008 - 1:46pm

You should consider rephrasing your post a little bit. I thought at first that Simon was criticizing New York for not having a high enough body count. Then it just turns out he was criticizing it for being in love with itself, which ain't news. (See also: The state of Texas, but with even fewer good reasons.)

Lorelei | Mon, 01/07/2008 - 1:55pm

I like the ambiguity :)

crazymonk | Mon, 01/07/2008 - 2:00pm
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