how many seasons was the wire on tv
5
The Wire
The fifth season focuses
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The Wire [SEP] Season 5
The fifth season focuses on the media and media consumption. The show features a fictional depiction of the newspaper "The Baltimore Sun", and in fact elements of the plot are ripped-from-the-headlines events (such as the Jayson Blair "New York Times" scandal) and people at the "Sun". The season, according to David Simon, deals with "what stories get told and what don't and why it is that things stay the same." Issues such as the quest for profit, the decrease in the number of reporters, and the end of aspiration for news quality would all be addressed, alongside the theme of homelessness.