Letters to the Editor
MaxwellZ
Published Letters: 2
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Just as a defender of hip-hop
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you're going to rightfully give Tupac hell for the lousy misogynist stuff he did, you should also point out that John Lennon wrote "Run for your Life".
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Hitting a little too close to home?
[Read the article: Hot off "The Wire"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So many places I've read journalists complain about the Sun storyline because "It's not nuanced enough" or "The higherups at the paper are shown as being one dimensional, negative characters" and, really, it makes me wonder if that criticism isn't more than a little self interested.
Have you people ever watched the Wire? The Baltimore police establishment is represented by people like Burrell, Rawls and Valchek. The political establishment is Clay Davis, Mayor Royce and the city council President. Business establishment? Krychek. Legal establishment? Levy. Are any of those characters represented as three dimensional characters with various shades of grey to their morality and decision making? Or are they all entirely self serving, corrupt examples of everything that's wrong with people in powerful positions?
The Wire had plenty of moustache twirling moments and I can't help but be a little skeptical when the people who gush about the show get a little put off when that same treatment is given to their shop.