![]() But despite all of this, there is one place that’s always hiring: the corner. One-half of the African-American adults in Baltimore are unemployed. Simon described Baltimore as being “very typical of a post-industrial American city,” where those without a college education are hard-pressed to find an honest job that can support their families. David Simon, former crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun and creator of HBO’s “The Wire,” talks about the effect of the drug war on Baltimore and the United States Monday evening in the Amphitheater.ĭavid Simon was never promoted throughout his entire 12-year career as a crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He shared his theory on career advancement with the Amphitheater crowd at his lecture Monday night: “Stay in one spot until you outlast everybody.”īut it was all that time spent as a crime reporter that would influence his later work, both his nonfiction books and his successful TV shows, such as HBO’s “The Wire.” ![]()
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