Eric Deggans is National Public Radio’s first full-time TV critic, chair of the Media Monitoring Committee for the National Association of Black Journalists, and author of 2012’s Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation.
Today, 16 years after it premiered, The Wire stands up as one of the best dramas on television. Eric Deggans talks to its creator about how he captured a community that wasn’t his own—and what journalists can learn from his storytelling.
