Talk:Journalists of The Wire

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[edit] Whitting and Klebanow=Carroll and Marimow

It has been discussed in articles in various publications (e.g. this Columbia Journalism Review article) that there will be versions of Carroll and Marimow in this season's Wire. As most such articles were published prior to the beginning of the season, the individual characters are not named, but it seems fairly obvious that the executive editor with the wasp name is Carroll, and that the managing editor with the name ending in "ow" is Marimow. Is this really debatable? john k (talk) 21:32, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Here's quote from that article, btw:

In April, a friend of mine was scheduled to participate in a storytelling series called “The Stoop” at a Baltimore arts organization called Creative Alliance, and it turned out that Simon was on the bill, too, so I went. The theme was “My Nemesis,” and after six fantastic tales, Simon stepped to the stage in an untucked black shirt and jeans. “My nemesis,” Simon said graciously, “is whoever asked me to follow that up.” Simon then set up his own story. He described himself as a grudge-holder nonpareil, motivated only by an egotistical need to prove to people that they were wrong and he was right. “So naturally,” he said, “the place I needed to be was in journalism.” He was happy at the Sun, he told the full house, but then Marimow and Carroll came along. Simon slammed their vision of journalism. He trashed the work they were most proud of, mocked their social graces, and dropped on them a generous payload of f-bombs. “Whenever they hear the word ‘Pulitzer,’ they become tumescent,” he said. Naming a nasty fourth season Wire character “Marimow” wasn’t enough, so Simon cast one-dimensional caricatures of Carroll and Marimow for the fifth season just to put a finger in their eyes. The twist in the story, in Simon’s telling, is that when he heard about Carroll’s heroic stand at the Los Angeles Times and about Marimow’s recent bout with prostate cancer, he felt bad. And then, when his actors started filling out the characters as real, complex human beings, he realized his own smallness and pettiness. Good storytelling dictated that the season would have to fully develop the characters and confront the bigger issues currently facing journalism, not just irritate his old “asshole bosses.”

Once one watches this season, this seems pretty syllogistic - Whitting and Klebanow are Carroll and Marimow. john k (talk) 21:36, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I absolutely agree having already read the article you linked to. I tagged them for citations because we need to show the source to readers of the encyclopedia so they can verify the information. Once you've worked the source article into a citation template and added the reference to wikipedia article we can take the fact tags down. For now I'm focusing on the nuts and bolts of the new series before I get into the deluge of recent media coverage but appreciate anyones help including this kind of information.--Opark 77 (talk) 22:46, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Do you think the CJR article is good enough as a source? It doesn't specifically say Whitting is Carroll, but it seems like a fairly obvious implication. john k (talk) 14:44, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Its better than no source but some still might consider it OR. We should perhaps ite the atlantic article by Mark Bowden and the Esquire piece by Simon directly as well. We can write more info on the real world grudge fuelling some of the writing over on Simon's page. I believe some of these articles are already sourced there so we could import the citations.--Opark 77 (talk) 14:49, 16 January 2008 (UTC)