No one — and I mean no one — working on the Wire or at HBO got money from Heineken or for any other product that appeared on the show. The writers wrote the products into the story that the story seemed to require. They sought and received no compensation but used real products to create simple versimilitude.

Yet this goof gets on the internet and alleges transactions that never occurred, having done no reporting or fact-checking whatsoever. Please desist in distributing this libel.

A writer on the show.