The Show That Canceled Itself

NEW YORK SUN — January 4, 2008
The Wire
It doesn’t take long, in the fifth and final season of HBO’s “The Wire,” before David Simon, the show’s prodigiously talented creator, finds an opportunity to go meta, putting in the mouths of some of his Baltimore characters his own reasons for telling the story of the city [...]

Israel’s Walter Cronkite Finds Himself at a Crossroads

FORWARD — December 13, 2005
Chaim Yavin, rightly referred to as Israel’s Walter Cronkite, has an odd face for a news anchor. Though his presence has comforted millions, delivering the news nightly on Israel’s state-run channel — with an almost exaggeratedly perfect diction — since 1968, his features seem to betray a slight befuddlement, a tinge [...]