a longtime journalist of "the baltimore sun" reported the allies -- reported the lives of inner-city baltimore. he laughed and told the baltimore city newspaper in 2003 because "some sons of bitches bought my newspaper and it stopped being fun." is that an accurate quotation? >> it is, indeed. >> he took an absence and shadow detectives of baltimore's homicide unit. the result was the edgar award winning book "homicide -- you're on the killing streets." he worked as a writer and later as a producer on that award winning drama. he went on to take the second leave of absence from "the sun" research and write "the coroner." it was a book about baltimore's drug trade. that inspired an emmy award winning miniseries. winning miniseries. that p his most critically acclaimed television venture that ran for five seasons on hbo depicted baltimore's struggle with drugs, corruption, and finally back to where we started, the media. in addition to his sometimes unflattering depiction of media in "the wire," he takes aim at the producers and consumers of news. last month before a senate panel, he sa

he left, he told the baltimore city paper in the year 2003, because, quoting here, "some sons of bitches bought my newspaper and it stopped being fun." [laughter] >> did we have that right? is that an accurate quotation? >> australia australia. >> ok. >> he took a leave of absence and for a full year shad dead the result was the edgar award-winning bookhood," a year on the killing streets" which

and then the city of baltimore. it's a great example of a school district that's thinking differently and it's not just an issue for school districts but for community-based organizations and parks and recreation and a time when we need to max mize currently whatever resources and we also need to make the case for an additional federal, state and local dollars to target a time of year that's historically been elected. host: specifically what are they using this money for in baltimore? keeping the schools open or special sflams tell us about that. guest: sure. what they are doing is structuring full-day comprehensive programs for kids. many of them take place in public schools but also in and in the recreation centers in the afternoon so they are offer indeed collaboration and non-profit organizations and offers kids choices taintsd and instead of mandating calendar change and these solutions for everyone, we see a tremendous amount of penalty. they are coming out in droves. the kids are really interested and i mean,

city neighborhood. a book about baltimore's drug trade and that work inspired an emmy award winning speetwo miniseries, homicide and the quarter paved the way for the "the wire", his most critically acclaimed and commercially successful television venture that speech and drama which ran for five seasons depicted baltimore struggles with trucks, corruption, schools and finally back to where we started the media. in addition to his sometimes unflattering depiction of the media and "the wire" he continues to vocally criticized the state of contemporary american journalism, taking aim at the producers and consumers of news and last month before it is senate panel he said that he believes in nothing can save high and professional journalism, despite all that he is doing what he can and he continues to work as a freelance journalist and author writing for the washington post, the new republic of details magazine among others. ladies and gentlemen, please give a nice national press club welcome to david simon. [applause] >> thank you. i don't know of five going to be clear on the c-span channel but i managed

speaker, in the city of baltimore we have a group that put out a -- two trailers entitled stop snitching. in one of those trailers i along with the state's attorney were threatened because we were standing up for this legislation and standing up for witnesses. but i made it very clear to them that i have no fear because if you can have a situation where a person can literally be standing on a corner and 20 people know the perpetrator, perpetrator comes up and blows somebody's brains out and nobody testifies, what happens then is that we have then given the criminal more power, we have taken power away from regular citizens, and the next thing you know the criminal feels that there are no consequences to his or her actions. you cannot have a criminal justice system that is effective and efficient unless you have the cooperation of witnesses. it is up to this congress to make it very, very clear that we will not under any circumstances stand for witnesses to be intimidated, harmed, threatened, killed, and in any way deterred from carrying out their duty to assist police and law enforcement

his office telephone number was listed in the kansas city directory. baltimore 6150.his home number was unlisted. probably indeference to bess. when he wasn't answering mail, entertaining mail visitors or taking telephone calls truman was busy raising money for the library. it would serve for a repository for his papers which for the time being were stored in 400 four-drawer filing cabinets in a room in the fourth floor in the jackson county courthouse. he envisioned it for a research center for colleges in the midwest. he wasn't interested to an memorial. i'll be cussed and discussed for the next generation anyway he didn't think of memorials for the living. you may never tell what foolishness they may discuss before they get in a pine box and then the memorial will be torn down. he would go home and listen to the radio and he indulged his passion by history by 10:00 he was in bed. it was in many respects a perfectly ordinary life. well, that's all i have to say right now. i'd like to take -- if you have any questions, i'd like to take them and i'd even more like to

through the keyhole of a pay model online, it is going to fall to starbucks could in baltimore, in san jose, any of these cities that are underserved is going to work. i think you'll be able to hire the cream of the bought out, laid off crop of journalists. if you are committed to putting the money back in, i think you will grow it. if you do the math of six, seven, $8 a month for 10%, 15% of newspapers prior subscription base was and realize that all of that money is now profit, not circulation costs. circulation was a cost center. that has been transformed. on a small scale basis where everybody is committed to just covering the regional area, there is no room for -- a lot of things are not relevant anymore to the local paper. the comex, the crossword puzzle, national coverage. but there is still a market in these regional areas for journalism. ultimately, it will be and non- profit or a very modest profit. somebody needs to say that 5% or sick % growth is ok. nobody said that for many years. nobody stood up and said what we doing to our own ambitions? here we are. >> how to reporters keep this from happening

were doing that and resources to that because that is their resumes the baltimore sun ceased to have a labor report in this city where the unions were being eviscerated. it's used to have a party reporter in a city where half the adult black males are without work. that's not an economic model that is viable, that is a model for unbelievable poverty. you know, is used to have a court reporter covering city courthouse for a. a half because all they did was generate copy for a news hole that was shrinking their and so what do we do? let's stop covering the courthouse is because that way we will fit their in i mean, the be system was the first thing they ever is rated because you know what that nobody wanted it pulitzer prize and nobody gets promoted and is to be the editor in chief of the l.a. times because they covered the city. journalism has its own fall statistic, the editorial side, and that false statistic is the pulitzers. you want to fix journalism on the editorial side, if the pulitzer prize committee started saying, you know what, we are going to get out five pulitzers for beat reporting every year but

city recently. jose lopez and the two-run home run and the mariners snapping the five-game losing streak in baltimore and d-backs. and allowing two hit so far in 4 1/3 innings and a two-run home run in the third is the ninth for the year in san francisco. and the a's are leading the twins 3-2. and cabrera with an rbi, along with suzuki. and liriano on the hill for minnesota. @@úúxx

battle of the beltways wraps up in baltimore as the nats and o's once again renew their rivalry with local bragging rights on the line. a month ago the birds from charm city took 2 ---2-3 from the nationals at nats park and the men from d.c. are looking for pay back. tonight the star also be out at camden yards as zimmerman, dunn and guzman take on roberts, markakis and jones. right here on masn! >> time for "nats xtra" pregame. tom davis along with the silver fox, ray knight. this will be take two, chapter two. the next three ballgames, the weekend series at camden yards, the nats against the orioles. our show is always brought to you by our good friends at the verizon wireless. the nats coming off a heck of a win against the boston red sox 9-3 while the orioles got racked pretty good down there in florida. they got swept by the marlins and yesterday got pounded pretty good 11-3. >> the orioles have done a little like us. they haven't scored runs over consistent periods of time, johnny. we exploded last night and we're going to go to the tape and show that. we were able to get four hits, four runs, a base on ball, just line drives all over the ballpark.

all of that, the baltimore sun and ceased to have a pot of the reporter and labor reporter -- a poverty reporter and a labor reporter. it ceased to have a court reporter covering a city courthouse for a year and a half because all they did was generate copy for a news hole that was shrinking. what do we do? we stop covering the court house because that way we will fit. the beat the system was the first thing they need this r- rated because nobody wins a pulitzer prize and is promoted what or the editor in chief of the l.a. times because they cover the heart of the city. journalism has its own appalls statistic on the editorial side. that is the pulitzer. if you want to fix in journalism on the editorial side -- if the pulitzer prize committee started saying, you know what, we will give out five pulitzers for beat reporting every year, but they have to cover the beat for five years. when you have actually covered it long enough to have an impact in terms of you are all over the agency or issue -- you have been a medical reporter for five years, nelson some of your stuff to the pulitzer. -- now send some of your stuff to the pulitzer. you would be increasing the papers

absence from the sun to research and write "the corner, a year in the life of the city neighborhood" about baltimore's drug trade. that inspired an emmy award-winning h.b.o. miniseries. "homicide" paveed the way for "the wire" a h.b.o. drama which ran for five seasons depicted baltimore's struggles with drugs, corruption, schools, and finally back to where we started, the media. in addition to his sometimes unflattering depiction of the media and the wire, he continues to vocally criticize the state of contemporary american journalism, taking aim at the producers and consumers of news. last month before a senate panel he said that he believes nothing can save high-end professional journalism. now, despite all that he is doing what he can. he continues to work as a freelance journalist and author writing for the "washington post," the new republic, and details magazine among others i'm told. ladies and gentlemen, please give a nice national press club welcome to david simon. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute]