you complaining about lazy writing but the most complex show in the history of television loses all of it's 'grey' when it comes to the newspaper season.

Gus the white knight. Pure. He'd never do anything wrong. He just cares about the news. And doing it right. And the bad guys are beating him up! Poor Gus!

Other dude and Gayle are just 'pure evil' representing what's wrong with print media/newsreporting.

It lost it's edge. It painted that picture as too black and white. It was....LAZY(c).

And McNulty's serial killer...god.