Baltimore, My Baltimore, Part II: Down to the Wire

How did celebrity journalists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles get to the ACORN office in Baltimore, the first stop on their barn burning tour of Eastern Seaboard ACORN offices?

In my previous post, I entertained the possibility that they could’ve taken a route that allowed them to drive by both the plot in the center of the city where Memorial Stadium used to be and the two new stadiums just off 95 down by the Inner Harbor. That route would have afforded them a study in contrasts.

Alternately, they might have elected to visit shot locations for HBO’s gritty police drama, The Wire, which ran for five seasons from 2002-2008. The brainchild of former police reporter David Simon, The Wire was ostensibly about the surveillance efforts of a special detail of the Baltimore police force tasked with putting away a drug-dealing kingpin in West Baltimore. But the real  subject of the show is not crime or political corruption or cops chasing down drug dealers: the real subject of the series is Baltimore, itself.

Blog entry continued at: 

http://text2cloud.com/2011/02/baltimore-part-ii-down-to-the-wire/