Inner City-Bill Moyers Journal-April 17, 2009-PBS

April 17, 2009

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DAVID SIMON

From crime beat reporter for the BALTIMORE SUN to award-winning screenwriter of HBO's critically-acclaimed The Wire, David Simon talks with Bill Moyers about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism today.



STOPPING THE PRESSES

The newspaper morgue is no longer just back issues — it's holds growing number of defunct papers around the nation. Get the stats on the changing media landscape. And, Bill Moyers and David Simon reflect on what happened to the news business.

THE STATE OF THE CITIES

How are America's downtowns faring up in the downturn?

PRISON NATION

The U.S. has five percent of the world's population and 25 percent of the world's prisoners -- how did we get here?