The actor in the blue shirt is the boss of Gus. However, in Breaking Bad his boss is Gus.

@truebeliever786

4 жыл бұрын

Haha Good one!!

@insignificantaftermathPROJECTS

4 жыл бұрын

Niiiice!

@billbixby557

4 жыл бұрын

BOOOOM!!

@tysonngubeni8545

4 жыл бұрын

😅 😅

@jeffreykirton1780

3 жыл бұрын

Good catch!

Remember the term 'Juking the Stats' from the other seasons? That's exactly what Scott Templeton was doing, and the bosses were fine with it as long as it sounded good. Even if it was a straight-up lie. The police did it, the schools did it, the criminals did it, the newspaper journalists did it, everybody did it. That's what makes the show amazing. Everything came full circle.

@Soulofausar

8 жыл бұрын

remember what the teacher told mr.prezbo, she said every where you go you're still there (or something along those lines) showing that the "game" doesn't change just the players

@dubbleyouJ

8 жыл бұрын

+01342663563 I think that's a great theme of the show. Every one is dirty. Who are the true criminals? Everyone is playing the hand that their dealt... some play by the rules, but many don't. Most often, it's the gang bangers and dealers that live at a higher moral code than any of the cops, politicians, or reporters.

@incaseofrapture6989

7 жыл бұрын

You that was Grace Sampson and she said "wherever you go, there you are." I really liked her character a lot.

@Lazyguy22

7 жыл бұрын

Everyone is dirty except for St. Gus.

@devilmaycry2352

7 жыл бұрын

01342663563 not the gangsters, they would get punished if they tried to juke the stats

McNulty's face when when Scott says the serial killer had been in touch with him! Priceless!

0:33 How my computer responds when I run my code for the first time.

@LunarySSF2

Жыл бұрын

LMFAOOO

Funny thing: the actor who plays "journalist" Scott Templeton is Tom McCarthy, who in real life is also a writer, producer and film director. One of his most successful works? Spotlight, a movie about the importance of outstanding journalism and reporting.

@Marz997

3 жыл бұрын

That movie was awesome. Such a great cast

@HindiMoviesHDYT

3 жыл бұрын

Did anyone ask?

@yugatrasclart4439

3 жыл бұрын

@@HindiMoviesHDYT I did

@JasonJia11

2 жыл бұрын

@@HindiMoviesHDYT Can you delete your comment? Since I asked

@HindiMoviesHDYT

2 жыл бұрын

@@JasonJia11 your opinions hold no value

You cut it off before the payoff where Alma picks up the notepad Templeton tossed to find it completely blank.

@kingtrawal

5 жыл бұрын

RazrHack alma was yummmmmy

@JustSomeCanadianGuy

4 жыл бұрын

RazrHack That really was a retarded move by Templeton.

@WalterLiddy

4 жыл бұрын

That part is incidental. We already know Gus is right.

@tommyodonovan3883

4 жыл бұрын

I forgot all about that part..... Fuk'n guy is GOOD tho. (All great actors) I believed him. Until Alma opened the Note Pad.

@prolifik5

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think we find out that it was blank until she tells him at the end of the season.

Gus ended being one of my favorite characters from the entire series. Then again, how is it even possible to pick favorites from this truly magnificent series? This was a great scene.

@5280PolotheKid

5 жыл бұрын

For sure.. my favorite characters change every re watch wich is quite frequently lol but in my opinion my favorites Are Bunny Colvin, The Bunk, Bubbles, Cutty and Randy... i really wish Randy could have got his kwn subplot in season 5 instead of just a cameo

@Toulouse41000

4 жыл бұрын

@Madeline Monahan He had a wife tho, but that's true he had no flaws in the show

@kathyduby8150

2 жыл бұрын

The whole series will last for centuries because it depicts the decline and fall of our society. A few good guys doing their jobs well cannot shore up a crumbling society.

@BleeKMedia

2 жыл бұрын

It’s easy - Slim Charles.

@youknowwhoyouare2269

2 жыл бұрын

@@BleeKMedia Slim faced death everyday and stood Tall. Gus faced career death and stood Tall. Both Lost pieces of their Soul during battle

David Simon about working at the baltimore sun: He came to me and said, “I want to do the stories that are about the Dickensian lives of children growing up in West Baltimore.” What he was saying was, “If you give me a nice, cute eight-, nine-year-old kid who doesn’t have a pencil, who doesn’t have a schoolbook, who lives in poverty, who’s big eyed and sweet and who I can make the reader fall in love with, I can win a fuckin’ prize with that. Write me that shit.” “Don’t hand me some struggling junkie.” “Don’t give me a guy who’s, like, trying to get high but maintain his dignity. Don’t give me anything complicated.” And he really used the word “Dickensian.”

@agenttheater5

7 жыл бұрын

Am I missing he point if I think that that's an insult to Dickens's work? I mean, granted, he used sentimentality in pretty much all of his works, but he still brought it to the publics attention. Made-up sop stories trying to pass themselves off as fact are an insult to his legacy, as well as to actual journalism.

@muiresuilgorm3452

4 жыл бұрын

Dickens wouldn't be that surprised if he came back to London today. He didn't like child poverty and homelessness in Victorian England, he wouldn't like it now.

@woahblackbettybamalam

Жыл бұрын

@@muiresuilgorm3452 Nah hed be like where tf did all these foreigners come from. Did i get sent to pakistan by mistake?

@Taospark

Жыл бұрын

@@agenttheater5 The implication is that it's so laughably out of touch to say that for a 20th Century or 21st Century profile of poverty.

@BoredLikeHelI

4 ай бұрын

@@muiresuilgorm3452 he would be SHOCKED and think that England lost a major invasion war vs the middle east lol. He would be FREAKING out once he found out you guys accepted those people in and gave them benefits, healthcare, free money, don't jail them for insane crimes (often times against children and of a perverted nature), etc. while the native English are persecuted as racists and colonizers and are worst off then they were decades ago. You people live in la-la-land

It's been said over and over but The Wire is basically a masterclass in how to cast. Templeton is a great example. The actor gives an A+ performance but before he even opens his mouth he looks like the type of guy who would throw his mom in front of a bus to get a story.

@stotheh

2 жыл бұрын

The epitome of a love-to-hate character.

@andrewkimble143

2 жыл бұрын

He directed the hell out of The Station Agent so not a bad guy at all just talented!

@jihigh482

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewkimble143 Thanks for letting us know that an actor is actually different from the characters they play as....

@isaacgraham5727

10 ай бұрын

@@andrewkimble143he also directed Spotlight, which won best picture. And he’s said in interviews that he NEVER would have made Spotlight without his experience on The Wire and learning about how newsrooms actually work because of this role.

Gus Haynes is a hero. There are too many Scott Templetons running around in the local newspaper business.

@bretth1385

6 жыл бұрын

Bobby Coggins profit and ratings (ie entertainment) driven journalism will inevitably lead to that. Journalism should be truth as firefighters is about helping people.

@salt27dogg

6 жыл бұрын

Bobby Coggins YOU ARE FAKE NEWS!!

@BedwetterCDN

6 жыл бұрын

Local?

@zhengcao6529

4 жыл бұрын

True that, fake news are everywhere

@mellowsign

4 жыл бұрын

Jonathan How do you use the internet to fact check a perfect quote from an anonymous source? How would you use the internet to disprove any of Scott's stories, really?

Gus had boss level intuition at all times. Scott thought he was pulling the wool over Gus's eyes but Gus was always ten moves ahead. Scott never stood a chance. It was only Gus's tact needed for playing the workplace heirachy game that get him relatively subdued.

Scott never had the makings of a varsity reporter.

@thatpart

6 жыл бұрын

Matt Schering it's undermining, and it's something I'm trying to teach my newspaper *NOT* to do

@darkgable85

5 жыл бұрын

He's a goddamn hothouse editor that's his problem 😆

@maddiemonster

4 жыл бұрын

He should go get his shine box.

@joemckim1183

4 жыл бұрын

@@maddiemonster Let me tell you a thing or three. Scott Templeton has been a varsity reporter for 20 years.

@TheGentlemanGamer

4 жыл бұрын

Scott Egg?

he had the nerve to throw that empty notepad

@seewhativescene

Ай бұрын

Kayleigh Mcaneny former trump press secretary with the empty binder 😂😂😂

“Our job is to report the news, not manufacture it.” “It always starts with something true.. but then...” Lol the Wire is always keeping it real

@MrPimptastic1

2 жыл бұрын

:McNulty has entered the chat:

And this is why the media has lost all its credibility. Not enough people like Gus and too many Scotts making up the news.

@capnpaco

2 жыл бұрын

Scott gets more clicks.

@Adamdidit

2 жыл бұрын

Disagree. The media lost its integrity becuase it got bought and sold piece by piece to companies that did so entirely for shit like this. This isn't the reason. it';s the end result of the reason.

@SoDakJason

Жыл бұрын

​@@capnpaco Nailed it. It's like how the public says they want more "good news" and not so much "negativity," but what stories do they click on the most? Crime and mayhem.

I love the idea that something being in Scott's notes is somehow proof that is really happened. He would obviously write down the same bullshit that he's using for his stories, Even more inexplicable is the fact that Scott didn't even bother writing any of it down in the notebook. 😂

@slitor

Жыл бұрын

A journalist notebook is also a log/record, when you diligently takes notes as discoveries/events/interviews happen then that becomes a thrustworthy record, especially if you have to hide or don't have the name of sources. Essentially notes are the first step in showing due dilligence. Police officers also have to take notes dilligently, as they have to type up reports and possibly witness in court. Scott did machine type his fabricated notes, but he didn't bother to copy it down in his physical notepad.

@alexwertheim870

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, hilarious. It was a nice touch to show what a worm Templeton is. The show repeatedly shows that the excellent game players (whether it be detectives, reporters, lawyers, or participants in the drug trade) are meticulous, patient, and stay on the grind. We repeatedly see how disinterested Scott is in legitimate hard work, and this is just another example of him failing to fake even the barest essentials of evidence for his story.

@Gringoclasico

Жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, that’s the case with the police too.

@jsnrvst

Жыл бұрын

The ironic thing is that we later finds out the "notes" were blank.

@nutsackmania

Жыл бұрын

wow really? did you think of that all on your own

"In my notes Gus... every last word is in my notes!" almost a direct quotation of Stephen Glass, the journalist who made up his stories - he (also others like Jayson Blair) probably served as inspiration for Scott Templeton.

@iandhr1

8 жыл бұрын

+DJoctor q You are quite right en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Templeton

@harryking3215

8 жыл бұрын

I also liked that his last name was Templeton. Which of course is the Rat in Charlotte's Web. The sort of animal that fits Scott's personality.

@Tkieron

3 жыл бұрын

This video cut it off but he storms off and the lady sitting there, Alma, picks up his notebook and looks at it. It's empty.

Gus was the press's freeman

The actor who played Scott ended up winning an Oscar for writing Spotlight.

I love revisiting this show on youtube to save me the hastle of going thrue dvds and finding my favorite scenes, but the whole series... each season is like the chapter in a book, and as it moves on it builds on each foundation of the chapter before til the end.

@NeilRamroop33

10 жыл бұрын

So true. Definitely one of the greatest shows of all time.

I like Gus's last quote. Yes, you might win the award but once the committee realizes that it's all donkey shit, they'll be angry.

"I think you need a lot of context to seriously examine anything."

I was and still am blown away from how deep the wire goes. The writer's deserve so many awards because of how in depth the show's story goes, and how realistic the story is compared to real life. Most TV shows are about 10 to 20% realistic at the most, with the odd ones like The Sopranos being a bit more, about 30 to 40% realistic. But with The Wire, it's such a masterpiece written by an a retired Baltimore homicide/special crimes police officer, it has to be the only show I've seen that is about 95% realistic. The problem I have is everytime I watch the wire I skip or don't pay attention to the boring ass newspaper stuff. I want to watch season 5 again just to pay attention to the newspaper room stuff and see how deep the story goes with it.

@andrewkimble143

2 жыл бұрын

It’s is good, homeboy. Watch it!! This was Simon’s season of expertise. 4 was Burns’.

I occasionally see a comment calling Gus too perfect of a character, and how he's basically an outlet for Simon to air his grievances about the industry he worked for. I don't necessarily disagree with that, but I think the most important thing to note is that Simon's grievances were valid and worth telling a story about. Simon's experience and wisdom that he gained from being a journalist combined with Clark Johnson's performance makes Gus an outstanding character.

@youknowwhoyouare2269

2 жыл бұрын

We, as collective Americans only care if it's delivered through a tv show/movie. Harsh reality upon harsh reality

@tonywagner7269

Жыл бұрын

My main complaint about season 5 is that it’s too black and white compared to the other seasons. The beauty of the wire is that the criminals are still given humanity and that the cops are portrayed are real flawed people. Season 5 had Gus being a great reporter/journalist and Scott being all that is wrong with the profession. But there was no nuance. You had no reason to like Scott. Even the killers and drug dealers in the other seasons have something.

@madgavin7568

Ай бұрын

@@tonywagner7269 Yeah Simon basically had an axe to grind in Season 5, and even though S5 was still a great Season you could tell it didn't have the magic Seasons 1 to 4 did. S5 felt more like a fictional drama like Breaking Bad than an accurate representation of city-life from the earlier seasons that made The Wire so different to other TV shows.

Lol imagine if Gus stopped and said show me the notes

that line about the human head kills me every time. man Gus was such an awesome new character

Gale and Gus foreshadowing

@yourfriendpros

10 жыл бұрын

holy shit i never noticed that

@Nicomaaan

6 жыл бұрын

Can someone elaborate how it is foreshadowing. It was some time ago when i watched the show

@doublestrokeroll

6 жыл бұрын

He's making a joke because the editor guy Gus was arguing with was in Breaking Bad. And in Breaking Bad he was working for a guy named Gus. lol.

@positivevibesandmorelife7307

4 жыл бұрын

❤

We need more Gus's in media today....

I hate people lying. This clip is so painful to watch even after my 4th complete rewatch.

When the Mike Daisey (Apple / Foxconn) fabrications began apppearing in the media - specifically when This American Life devoted an entire show to a retraction, I *immediately* thought of this scene. .Gus Haynes' speach is my favorite moment in Season 5. God Bless David Simon, Ed Burns & Clark Johnson.

Gus was one of the best characters of season 5.

@chemlnarik434

7 жыл бұрын

iandhr1 in agree...his "human head with its eyes still blinking" was one of the funniest scenes in the entire series.

@rogda123

4 жыл бұрын

na hes shit and lame

@Itzsfo0

4 жыл бұрын

Yea gus is def the coolest most of My friends really liked gus in s5

@KianoUyMOOP

4 жыл бұрын

and 'Breaking Bad'.

@BBrecht

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely one of the best screenwriter self-inserts in all of television.

"Our job is to report the news, not manufacture them. We cannot run this shit!" If only journalists were like this in real life.

@dorianmcclay

2 жыл бұрын

Journalists are like this is in real life. The sad part is, that the institutions they work for are exactly like the one portrayed in this show. Which leads to Journalists going independent of the MSM.

@nicholassrivas

Жыл бұрын

See thats the beauty of the wire. Its all a cycle, there are great reporters out there i would even say more good than bad, but the system feeds giving the scotts of the world the pedestal. His boss feeds it, the people who buy the paper feed it, and we all lose.

Even if you HATED Season 5 (I didn't, I liked it a lot) you had to respect the story of...life..coming full circle. Everyone should have to watch The Wire and take a class on it, I know there are classes on it but it should be mandatory

@mikelong2756

6 жыл бұрын

nateo200 😂😂😂

@ZIGZAG12345

6 жыл бұрын

I agree. There were some slow bits, but I kept paying attention and the way it all came together at the end was great, if depressing right at the VERY end when the music starts playing. And yes, it was educational too, because you got a look at corruption from every department, right down to the entry level street dealers skimming for themselves, to the hierarchy of their criminal organisations, from the "regular" cops and detectives, to the stat-juking guys at the top of that tree. Then the district attorney's officers. Then onto the media, onto city politics, onto state-politics. Then how they all can overlap and several types of corruption can end up being mixed together at once. It was pieced together amazingly! Then the ending which was basically like "Well, we hope you enjoyed the show, but you see none of this matters, all you've achieved is you now KNOW it works like this, so nobody "WON", the game never changes and everything you just saw is never going to stop and will keep on happening, again and again. And there is not a thing you who knows how it works now or any one person can really do about it. Thanks for watching!"

@Malky5279

5 жыл бұрын

My only issue with season 5 was McNulty and the fake serial killer charade felt out of kilter for a show that otherwise felt incredibly grounded in reality. If it turns out that is based off something real then consider that criticism retracted.

@O0Q0OQO

5 жыл бұрын

I don't understand how this criticism is still alive. He totally snapped because he realized he literally killed Bodie, someone he highly respected and empathized with. That's why he did everything he did. People just don't make the connection because it happens at the end of Season 4 (Bodie's murder) and McNulty doesn't start truly going crazy in response until Season 5.

@tyslims2805

5 жыл бұрын

@@Malky5279 yes..the fake serial killer twist was weird and disappointing.

Those job losses at the Baltimore Sun must’ve really put Gale in a spot. To drop everything in Maryland to dive to New Mexico, settle in, and start cooing crank.

season 5 so underrated

@steveschall9

4 жыл бұрын

Lol not really. It’s worst out of all 5. Too Hollywood like. Made up serial killers, omar jumping out of a 7th floor balcony. Just not a very good season compared to the rest.

@rodolfoalcubo

3 жыл бұрын

@@steveschall9 Yeah, not like false evidence is a real thing or anything. And 7th floor? Dude what the actual fuck. Omar jumped from a 2nd and it was based on a rumour that the real Omar jumped from a 4th.

“ITS IN MY NOTES!” -Scott Simpleton *notes 🗒*

The "Nice" comment after Scotts FU wasn't just dismissive sarcasm but also Gus indirectly and respectfully highlighting Templeton's inability to articulate a valid argument. As if to say "There you have it folks, Pulitzer Nominee and Baltimore Sun's finest"

You cut it too soon. The best part is when the Latina reporter picks up his notes and its a completely empty notepad

Now the latest Scott Templeton is Joseph Mayton of the Guardian: 13 fabricated stories, so far...

Peter Parker type of reporter. Always there to catch photos of spiderman.

This is great, watch the series absolutely amazing, But for context for those who are watching this who haven't seen the series. The ' its in my notes' scene at the end should have included alma revealing the truth, that said I appreciate you putting this on youtube .

"In my notes" Yeah, that's pretty much proof enough to most papers these days.

I love when Jimmy calls that guy out. I need to rewatch this season.

WE CANNOT RUN THIS SHIT!!! Gus was phenomenal in season 5🤣

The Scott Templeton character is the kind of role Matt Damon always kills on the regular!

what I learn about that season nobody gives a shit about honesty. also the guy who wrote bubbles story should have won the award.

Greatest show ever. Gus got is so right. Season 5 is so underrated it may be the best if the series.

Shortly after this, Scott’s boss ended up cooking meth for a unknown Chemistry teacher in Albuquerque NM.

Eventually these types of newspapers would just turn into tabloid magazines. You don't have to be credible to make money. Sometimes because of the mundaneness of life, people just want to hear a juicy story, regardless of if it's true or not.

Ironic how Klebanow talks about affected judgment when he was personally invested in getting Scott a Pulitzer.

We. Cannot. Run. This. Shit. This still echos in my mind. The cadence and passion of how he says it... I adapted it for my own life and I think of it anytime I'm in a workplace disagreement where someone is doing something incorrectly lol

season 5 isn't most people's favorites. But seeing how fiction gets reported as news might be the most real thing in all of the wire.

fake news

@ElephasXFalconeri

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, there would be no Gus Haynes in fake news media.

@viewmaster617

4 жыл бұрын

WE CANNOT RUN THIS SHIT!!

@lordoffaiyum9727

3 жыл бұрын

@sneksnekitsasnek guess you trust the news. Idiot

Didn’t realize this until now, but Clark Johnson (Gus) directed a few episodes of the Wire, and also the Shield including the pilot and series finale.

@scottton9835

4 жыл бұрын

and Tom McCarthy (Scott Templeton) directed 2016 academy award winning best picture Spotlight amongst other things

The shame of this scene is Scott and The Sun won a Pulitzer. Viewers never got to see him brought low. In The Wire, everybody paid for their sins at some point, except for Rawls and Scott.

@moffjendob6796

5 жыл бұрын

Because that's how it works in real life, too... the bad guys only get caught in stories.

Great little bit of trivia that the actor who played Scott Templeton, the anthesis of great journalism, directed the film “Spotlight” which is the embodiment of ethical, hard hitting journalism.

@spearofconquest

4 жыл бұрын

And the fucker won an Oscar for it as well lol

I really wish this storyline would have ended with Gus being proven right and his bosses made to look like fools.

Like the press has any honesty left.

"The Blairs, the Glass's, the Kelly's ..." are those famous reporters who were found out to be writing fake stories? I've never heard of them before.

@BJMcB92

9 жыл бұрын

AJBfc Jason Blair wrote for the New York Times and resigned after he was caught plagiarizing and making up stories. Stephen Glass wrote for The New Republic magazine and was caught fabricating over half of the articles he wrote. I think Kelly might be Megyn Kelly? But I'm not sure she was around when The Wire was airing new episodes, it could be someone else.

@SoDakJason

9 жыл бұрын

BJMcB92 Jack Kelley. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kelley

@EHSCGas

8 жыл бұрын

Watch the movie Shattered Glass, It's a great movie about this stuff.

@cockoffgewgle4993

6 жыл бұрын

I like the lack of apostrophe on the Blairs. I think that's accurate and he meant Jason and Tony.

@waseemsakka2803

6 жыл бұрын

Actually the apostrophe is wrong in all cases there.

And then Gale became a Chemist...

@juanaceves6363

7 жыл бұрын

and ended up working with another Gus. lol

@Destruction320

7 жыл бұрын

It may have been because of The Wire, it's hard to imagine any writer of TV Shows, no matter how good or bad they are, to have not seen The Wire.

@CGoody564

5 жыл бұрын

@@Destruction320 that is garbage. They didn't choose the characters name "Gus" because of this character in the wire. They chose Gus because Gustavo would be a name you'd find in Chile.

@CGoody564

5 жыл бұрын

@@juanaceves6363 and now he's wags, COO of Axe Capital.

@hoereadyjoerogan-gorillake9050

4 жыл бұрын

Cooking the stats.

should've included Alma telling Gus how she looked at his notebook and it was empty

If only he had picked that little notebook right there, and tried to read it out loud....

@kixmgc

8 жыл бұрын

+Julio Montero "It's in my other notebook, the one I left at home!"

@tankmaster1018

7 жыл бұрын

That would have been literal gold...

@dinobotpwnz

7 жыл бұрын

For some reason I interpreted the empty notebook as showing that Scott succumbed to the same schizophrenia as the homeless people he talked to.

@carbon9357

6 жыл бұрын

dinobotpwnz yh there was no need to lie about the notebook. In fact it was idiotic to mention it. You could tell that he was so addicted to the lie that he was trying to convince himself it was truth.

Great element to the final season. I liked seasons 1-3 far more than seasons 4 and 5 BUT I did like how they showed the ugly reality of "dressing up" that goes on everywhere. In this season the newspaper is affected not only by the ugly recession but the decline that has rapidly deteriorated the newspaper industry since 2000 in which the internet and big companies swallow up market share and buy out newspapers left and right so there were 2 angles from which the baltimore sun was under increasing pressure. Scott happened to create the perfect kind of buzz for the paper and they needed buzz and praise in this moment so their general standards of reporting went out the window and Templeton knew it and that's why he decided to make his move. If you see the series, you'll see in the end how close to right Gus was in his forecasting.

Scott was *horrible* at lying. Alma looks through his notebook just after and finds it completely blank. Somehow he gets away with it tho!

I almost majored in journalism before I realized I’d be Gus by age 50...

I love this scene. Gus was about the facts.

Clark gives a master class in this scene and show.

David Costabile goes from a guy named Gus who works for him to working for a guy named Gus (was that a nod to The Wire?). When his BB character opened the door in THAT scene i expected the person at the door to say “Gus says hello!”

0:40 Brian Williams, PLEASE CONFIRM. Its Urgent

Didn't realize Wags from Billions was on The Wire. It's been too long since I watched this masterpiece, I guess.

I wish we could have gotten more from Gus and the newspaper story arc throughout the entirety of the show..

"it's in my notes!" Lol how is that proof of anything that just means you wrote something down on a sheet of paper 🤣

"it always starts with something small." so we don't notice it, and they think it is a minor wrong done in service to a greater right. "it always starts with something true." so we trust the rest that follows will be true too, and they feel confident that divergences from a starting truth can be remedied in the future before anyone notices or is affected. the lies we tell ourselves enable the lies we then tell others.

I never liked Gus until I realized he was a man of integrity

"It always starts with something TRUE. Something confirmed...." The Sun should have been introduced in Season 4 with the bodies in the buildings; Gus was a great character.

"our job is to report the news not to manufacture it" However, the largest cable network, the largest local tv network owner, and the largest political internet sites and radio stations and all their biggest personalities would disagree with that .. One of the reason why no one knows what's going on anymore

@missbelled6700

3 жыл бұрын

Have you tried... a newspaper?

@missbelled6700

3 жыл бұрын

@A M Have you tried a newspaper? Critical thought also required, but I understand if you're primed to just accept or reject reporting and opinions out of hand, with no middle ground.

@viewmaster617

3 жыл бұрын

Well said

@SoDakJason

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, it's also what the public wants. Readers and viewers today don't want to be informed, they want to be assured that they're right.

Not just true of journalism, incentive structures are all fucked up across institutions.

The bosses were clearly after a Pullitzer and didn't care about quality reporting. Any half decent reporter would have been able to see the that the serial killer was made up, Gus actually realized it from the beggining.

i wish they added to the ending sequence gus ratting scott out and exposing the lies to the world

Lamenting the fact that objectivity, not sensationalism, have been dying in the U.S. for a long time now

What makes all these journalism scenes ironically hilarious is that David Simon went on to become one of the biggest Russiagate dupes.

this series was epic win on so many levels.

Has anyone ever notice how Scott did not have any comebacks when Gus was calling him out? “Our job is to report the news, not manufacture it” This is a classic insult! The only reason why Scott replied, “Fuck you, Gus” was because he didn’t have any counter argument.

The paper didn't care if he made it all up, they were making money and getting huge press out of it. Don't let a little thing like the truth get in the way.

Gus may be the most admirable character in the entire show

Templeton's eloquence in the show is goals!

Fun to imagine there is anyone this honest in media.

@Kanovskiy

2 жыл бұрын

right? It seems they all are deep into the lies now a days.

Scott was then Hired as news director for CNN global strategies

@spearofconquest

2 жыл бұрын

trump lost in historic fashion. Biggest presidential election loser in history.

Gus is what the press was 50 years ago, Scott is the garbage the press has become the last 20 years

Guys it’s in his notes. That proves it.

Gus was one of my favorite characters on the Wire

Brian Williams anyone? Just another way the Wire was ahead of it's time

@FroMaestro

6 жыл бұрын

lol oh c'mon. Lying is as old as humans are. The Wire in no way presaged that.

Really? Cuz I thought it was an excellent and accurate portrayle of how a newspaper is run. I found it interesting at least to see the politics of it, how some stories are pushed in front of others and the manner of curruption behind it.

Need to show the next scene. The notepad he threw on the female reporter's desk? It was blank. 100% blank what was "in his notes!"

Gus almost had it right...the Pizzeria Sbarro bombing was in Jerusalem, not Tel Aviv (August 2001).

Honestly guys if you've seen the show multiple times and find yourself here looking for your Wire fix then try and get your hands on the episodes with commentary (may mean buying the box set, I've now given you the justification you needed to buy a show you've seen multiple times)

Gus Haynes is the highlight character of season 5 of the Wire.

Templeton is just quoting Shattered Glass dialogue at this point

And later we knew that the notebook of that lying phony was empty, 0 notes. There are a lot of people in all sectors like this guy.

Scott Templeton now works for CNN.