David Simon über "Treme" und das US-Zeitungssterben

Der Guardian berichtet vom Drehbeginn der neuen David Simon-Serie Treme:

Treme's layers will be built from the exhaustive street-level research and on-location shooting that former journalist Simon is known for, which includes co-opting many New Orleans denizens into the cast. Alongside Wire alumni Clarke Peters (Detective Lester Freeman) and New Orleans native Wendell Pierce (who played Detective "Bunk" Moreland), Simon has also cast Katrina survivor Phyllis Montana Leblanc – who worked on Spike Lee's Hurricane Katrina documentary for HBO, When the Levees Broke.

Außerdem beschäftigt Simon das Zeitungssterben in den USA:

The only hope, Simon insists, is for major news outlets to find a way to collaboratively impose charges for reading online, and to demand fees from aggregators such as Google News, which profit from their journalism. "If you don't have a product that you're charging for, you don't have a product," he says. "If you think that free is going to produce something that's as much of a cost centre as good journalism – because it costs money to do good journalism – you're out of your mind."