Romenesko

Fancast/Inside TV
David Simon, creator of HBO's "The Wire" and a former Baltimore Sun reporter, says: "The newsroom where I used to work had 460 people. Now it has 300. And there are people out there who just don't care. They'll make more money putting out a mediocre paper than they would putting out a better paper. ...Within that culture we have people that are saying, 'oh no, we're going to do more with less,' which is one of the great lies of the 21st century. What it means is we're going to less with less. And that's the nature of what journalism is becoming."