David Simon într-un interviu mai vechi cu Nick Hornby:
My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. Fuck him.
David Simon e omul care după ce a fost dat afară de la Baltimore Sun, ziarul la care lucrase toata viața, s-a apucat să scrie cel mai bun serial de televiziune din toate timpurile. The Wire e o cronică atât de acută a degradării societății americane suburbane încât astăzi e studiat la universități ca Harvard, Berkley sau Syracuse.