The Forest for the Trees.

"No one went near the theme; everyone stayed dead-center and literal, oblivious to the big-ass elephant in our mythical newsroom...Here's what happened in season five of The Wire when almost no one -- among the working press, at least -- was looking: Our newspaper missed every major story." With the finale come and gone, David Simon has to explain to the press the theme of the season, which they -- ironically -- missed. (See also: the next post.)