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Walking on a Wire

"Someday, I'd like to find out what it feels like to work at a real newspaper."

That's one of the many great lines of dialog from the fifth and final season of The Wire, which I write about in my Examiner column.

Here's a nice WSJ piece about a real-life editor that reminds me a little of the fictional Gus Haynes (mentioned in the above-linked column, and played by Clark Johnson).

Also from the WSJ, here's the inimitable Hitch on Obama and Hillary, and why both of their campaigns are based on hypocrisy.

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Still watching SVU?

I like the Law & Order series because I know exactly what I am going to get each time and I don't have to watch them in order (even though I do).

Adding Jeremy Sisto as ex-spy Detective Cyrus Lupo to L&O is a good move, even though I loved Milena Govich as Detective Nina Cassady last year.

L&O CI is my favorite simply because of Vincent D'Onofrio as Bobby Goren, the best variation on Sherlock Holmes since Nero Wolfe.

But SVU is in the tank this year. The writing - dialog and plotting - has gotten really bad really fast and I've not noticed the same on the other two shows.

The segments in which we're told the statistics relating to the perversion of the night are as smooth as one of those horrid The More You Know ads.

Good cop show lines do not start out "According to the Kaiser Family Foundation" or "Researchers at Rand."

Am I the only one spotting this?

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Hillary on clearance

I got the idea for this Examiner column upon hearing Wolf Blitzer say "retail politics" for the 97th time in a 10-minute segment.

The Amazing Race

Some possible alternative shows while the writers' strike is on, from my Examiner column.