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wtf
Video Media Strangeness: Rachel Sklar, David Carr, Diet Coke, In A Bar.
Not entirely sure what to make of this: The Daily Beast just posted video of Rachel Sklar and David Carr (henceforth known as SklarCarr) talking. It's weird. Especially when Carr notes that the New York Times doesn't need saving. More »
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By Foster KamerComment by Peter Feld: I''m sorry Rachel. "I love his jam"???? 6 Responses | Other threads
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media
David Carr's Night on the Town
Early this morning, at about 5AM, we were browsing through today's edition of the New York Times when we ran across David Carr's media column. Something about it struck us viscerally, so much so that we were unable to process it at the time and write anything about it. More »
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Comment by autowin: This is just really good. Can I say "good job" without trying to be funny That being said, after just reading... 1 Responses | Other threads
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team party crash
The Gossip Gangs of New York
Page Six gossip Paula Froelich's first novel is concerned with a certain set of New York ladies in crisis, Mercury in Retrograde (she may be among them, as a "composite"). So surely other "composites" were in attendance at her book party last night.
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twitterati
The Twitterati Hates Buckling Down for Work
The Daily Show relegated its Times mockery to Twitter; Glenn Greenwald has had it with all of you poseurs covering the Obama Administration and Susan Orlean has maybe had it with everything, period. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by disreputable: I'm sure that's what she means, britney, although proper spelling is just such a bore for these Twitterverse people. I'm... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Unfortunate Advertising
Apple's 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' Guys Stare at Death Row Inmate on NY Times' Website
Blogger In Other News caught this somewhat unfortunate screengrab on the New York Times website tonight of Apple's ad stars, John Hodgman and Justin Long, gazing lazily at a soon to be executed Missouri man. More »
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Comment by kamikaze kittenball: i wish my last name was skillicorn. sounds like an awesome mythical creature, or something delicious. both of which i... 4 Responses | Other threads
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feuds
Michael Wolff Does Not Like David Carr, or His Book Reviews
Professional media beef-starter Michael Wolff is starting another beef! It's just what he does. Today's target: NYT media columnist David Carr, who Wolff says "I've never personally liked very much." We know why, Michael! More »
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Comment by power_stroke: Wolff is disgusting. I would rather sleep with Mario Batali. 4 Responses | Other threads
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the internet
How Long Before the NYT Shuts Down Its Scandalous Twitterers?!
In January, the New York Times' standards editor issued guidelines about how editorial staffers are allowed to use Facebook and other scary online tools. Is reporter Twittering making a mockery of those guidelines? Let's explore! More »
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Comment by SultanaEleusis: Name me two people who wish The Times ill! Okay, name me two million, along with their middle initials... 1 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
New York Times Writer Learns about 'Internets' at SXSW
In the '90s, the Web cognoscenti joked about doing crack. But New York Times columnist David Carr actually did crack! Which might explain his befuddlement in this clip from the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by swagv: What's sadder is that most Web industry professionals at SXSW probably don't recognize that the term "internet" has a specific... 2 Responses | Other threads
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blind items
Who Are David Carr's Anonymous Hollywood Friends?
As David Carr's enjoyable New York Times awards column, The Carpetbagger, winds down for the season, he leaves us with two unanswered blind items. Who are the 20-year-old-eating showbiz mogul and the benevolent-turned-slightly-wicked producer? More » -
Cultural arbiters
David Carr Just Doing What Feels Right
An unshaven David Carr wears a Joker mask and a raggedy sweatshirt which may or may not be just his normal clothing and does a shrieky monster voice and and generally carries on like a mental patient in his own dank home basement in today's video, which the New York Times, the paper of record, paid him to create, and then posted on its website voluntarily, which is all that gives us hope for journalism today.
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Comment by Mount_Prion: As awesome as the video is, should the NYT really be spending its money on this? 5 Responses | Other threads
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slapfights
When Media Critics Fight
In today's NYT Book Review, media critic David Carr kinda savaged Michael Wolff's Rupert Murdoch bio. After the jump, see Wolff's vicious response via Facebook status line. Aren't media nerds cute when they fight? More »
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Comment by dadoorunrun: I know you banned the word but what an asshat. Carr was, if anything, too kind. The good news is... 2 Responses | Other threads
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film
Oscar-Nominated Movies All the Same This Year
New York Times reporter David Carr's alter-ego the Carpetbagger has come out to offer movie analysis in the long, loooong runup to Oscar season, which seems to last for approximately four months. Now, it isn't that these year's movies are bad; they're "solid efforts. And all the other things you would say to a shiny class of first graders who are all very special in their own ways." However, they're all the same, he argues.
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By SheilaComment by JinxyMcDeath: Slumdog Millionaire was the best movie I saw this year... 2 Responses | Other threads
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good news
Everyone Likes Katie Couric Again!
Good news for Katie Couric: the ongoing psychodrama at MSNBC has caused people to forget entirely that she was widely considered a unhappy failure as the anchor of the CBS evening news. Remember how she hated the job, and the criticism, and was going to quit after the elections and take over for Larry King or something? That was a long time ago, and the spectacle of Chris Matthews versus Keith Olbermann versus Joe Scarborough versus NBC News brass versus viewers has basically taken all the negative attention off of poor Katie. As a result, now it is time for people to decide they like her again! First up, Times media person David Carr. More »
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By PareeneComment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: anyone can anchor the news! anyone can be president! more » | Other threads
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david carr
David Carr's Competition
Geez, not two months after potato-loving NYT reporter David Carr was declared the next big thing in druggie memoir publishing, the literati is already turning its attention to Bill Clegg, the next druggie memoir star. Which we note mostly so that we can use this picture that we took with our cameraphone last night: David Carr underneath a Barnes & Noble banner with his very own picture on it! Ain't that a kick? Click to enlarge.
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new york times
NYT's New Media Desk Omits NYT Media Star
The New York Times announced today that it's (finally?) starting a dedicated Media desk. The beat has been split between the Business and Culture sections, but now the paper is pulling a dozen reporters together and moving them to the third floor—the floor between the other two sections, and where the top Times editors now sit. Symbolic! It's all about "convergence," they say. But why now? And, look who's not going to be assigned to the Media desk: More »
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Comment by BScrivner: Because Carr is wrong about 90% of the time, at least on Hollywood. He's sort of the Charlie LeDuff of... 2 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Desperate Denver Journos Just Reporting on Each Other
There's no news in Denver. At least, no news that couldn't be reported by watching it on C-Span from the comfort of home. So what to do? Report on what all your fellow journalists are doing! So far, the single greatest example of this is HuffPo's constant reportage from their own "HuffPost Oasis" in Denver. At left, an unretouched screengrab from their front page today. The Oasis is remarkably popular with journalists, considering that we have no idea what goes on there but we don't think it involves free booze. Wait, maybe we do know what's going on there! "'I feel relaxed!' said a particularly refreshed Eric Alterman as he stepped away from a complimentary facial for a minute. 'I'll tell you this—everyone should add facials to their lives.'" Oh, wow.
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By PareeneComment by Colonel Mustard: 'I'll tell you this-everyone should add facials to their lives.' How do you think Chace Crawford stays looking so youthful? 7 Responses | Other threads
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In Brief
Now That's a Real Bestseller
Earlier, we snarked that being on the "extended" NYT bestseller list doesn't really count, re: David Carr and his August 24th showing on the extended list. But we've just learned that he made the August 31st "regular" bestselling list—at #12 for nonfiction.
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By SheilaComment by RonMwangaguhunga: Good to hear. I'm 1/3 through it and recommend the book. more » | Other threads
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books
David Carr's Shifty Definition of "Bestseller"
"The Instant New York Times Bestseller," trumpets the full-page ad for NYT reporter David Carr's memoir in the NYT today. We'll congratulate him for that, as we are fans of his brutally honest addiction memoir. However, it must be pointed out that Night of the Gun has only hit the expanded bestseller list, which is for the runners-up and isn't printed. (Update: that was the Aug. 24th Times bestseller list. We've just learned that Carr made the regular August 31st bestseller list, at #12 for nonfiction.)
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By SheilaComment by MissNormaDesmond: @sarahpfunk: What, the tongue-in-cheek Oscar he gave himself? That seemed more self-deprecating than aggrandizing, although I suppose it might come... more » | Other threads
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national enquirer
Edwards Scoop Won't Save National Enquirer
The National Enquirer is having an amazing week thanks to its coverage of John Edwards' philandering, but the supermarket tabloid is probably still going to die along with troubled parent company American Media Inc., the Times' David Carr reports for tomorrow's paper. It doesn't seem to matter that three of the best papers in the country all ran stories about how the Enquirer was right about Edwards and they were wrong or that the tabloid still owns the probably-not-finished scandal. AMI is so deep in the hole — nearly $1 billion! — that most analysts aren't even keeping track of the Edwards coverage or anything else about the company because they've written it off. One gave this fairly devastating quote to Carr, anonymously: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by MosseyCade: @Trixie from Toronto: "McCain's wife being caught in a hot lesbian clinch would turn everyone on and probably cause his... more » | Other threads
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david carr
David Carr Invites You to Tour Beautiful Minneapolis
Heading to the Republican convention? You could do worse than follow the advice proffered in today's Times "36 Hours in" column on the Twin Cities, penned by Minneapolitan David Carr. It's full of good advice for restaurants, culture, and entertainment. And bars. There are really just a couple of our favorite places that he missed: you can get a good (for the midwest) pizza and a cheap pitcher of Summit at Pizza Luce on Lyndale Ave. If the lot's full, there's usually street parking readily available a block away on 32nd and Garfield. Just make sure to lock up! [NYT]
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By PareeneComment by itsalwaysthequietones: @Jill7: The lovely, art deco Convention Grill must be on that list! more » | Other threads
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death of print
Why the New York Times will soon be a brochure
In a roundup of every current media-wonk topic — the Olympics, YouTube, TiVo, and the Philadelphia Inquirer's boneheaded move to keep its hottest stories offline — David Carr of the New York Times has deftly buried a hint to his employer's Web strategy: "The horizon line for when a newspaper on the street is serving as a kind of brochure of a rich online product does not seem far off." Carr's not just speculating. He's alluding to a move already being made at the Times: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by transparency: Big stigma still attached to online-only work. Which is why they're not pitching it that way. more » | Other threads
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how things work
David Carr's Charming, Self-Promoting Spam
Everyone loves New York Times reporter David Carr, who's just published Night of the Gun, an excellent reported memoir about his years of crack addiction and bad behavior. That's why the self-promoting spam e-mail that he sent to everybody he knows this morning is so easy to swallow. Most authors self-promote while falling all over themselves, trying to apologize. Not David! "As you can see from the non-customized hello, I am spamming you out of self-interest." More »
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By SheilaComment by SilverJacket: SilverJacket here. Congrats, david, but big picture aside, I don't get why people start emails with "[name] here." Doesn't the "From:"... more » | Other threads
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james brady
James Brady Shocked To Find David Carr Was On Drugs
Hawk-faced elderly man James Brady, the name-dropping veteran of 600 media outlets who has now eased into his retirement job as Forbes' "media columnist" (ha), is primarily skilled at being befuddled about the point of things (though he hasn't lost his name-dropping talent). So faced with an early copy of former crackhead-turned Times columnist David Carr's (well-reviewed) new book—which is not, as Brady hoped, a volume of media name-dropping—Brady panics in print like the senile Uncle Junior in The Sopranos: shoot the bad man and run hide in the closet! More »
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Comment by SpyMagician: Hawk-faced? James Brady is dead-ringer for a cleanly shorn Dr. Zaius. more » | Other threads
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david carr
Timesman A "Creep" To Women In Memoir Cuts
Jennifer Senior's affectionate profile of former coworker David Carr examines what the Times media reporter left out of his tell-all memoir of crack addiction, drug dealing and physical abuse: Being a big jerk to many of the women he drew into his orbit. Carr's many female friends, Senior said, were shocked to read about him choking his girlfriend, and probably also would have had trouble imagining with some of what got cut: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Paddington: It is like when Chandler broke up with the girl in summer camp because she was fat, and Monica made... more » | Other threads
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books
Speak, Memory, Then Fact-Check
Leon Neyfakh at the Observer reports on David Carr's fastidiously investigated druggie memoir The Night of the Gun and thinks it's just the rehab an ailing genre needs: "After years of abuse, the memoir has found its white knight, galloping in to show how a personal story can be engrossing, shocking and true. Mr. Carr’s book...practically issues a challenge to those current reigning kings—David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Ishmael Beah—of the memoir genre: You get a video camera and tape recorder, and retrace the steps of your life. Will your story sound the same?" Carr even hired a reporter to help him reconstruct the evidence of his forgotten crackhead years, which raises an interesting question: Will he be credited for bringing journalistic rigor to the memoir, or will a superabundance of facts and sources — "No, this really happened, I have affidavits to prove it!" — baptize the next big thing in literary narcissism? More » -
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Stop the Insanity
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Mid-Market Gossip Columnist Invents Media Feud From Thin Air
Minneapolis Star and Tribune "gossip" columnist (there is no gossip in Minneapolis) C.J. has a kind of hilarious "item" about how Times media columnist and addiction memoirist David Carr is now feuding with Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz. How does she manage this? She quotes a Kurtz column in which Kurtz sums up Carr's assesment of himself as a lousy junkie, then calls Carr to ask if he'll be on Kurtz's show. Carr, probably befuddled at receiving a call from C.J., says something kind of confusing about how they are not that close. Then, FishbowlNY picks it up? Best entirely nonsensical made-up feud ever! Team Junkie! [Strib] -
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David Carr Potato Metaphor Scandal!
Crackhead-turned Times reporter success story David Carr is loved by media types for being a cool guy, and is basking in the generally positive public attitude towards his upcoming memoir. But everything is not well in Carr's world. Oh no. Just as Carr has found the strength to open up to the world about his past drug use, an even bigger scandal threatens to overwhelm him: his incurable fondness for potatoes. More »
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books
Doing Crack With David Carr
A memoir worth reading? Imagine that! New York Times media reporter David Carr's Night of the Gun comes out next month, and it's been treated to a nice nine-page excerpt in today's NYT Magazine. After detailing how he became a crack addict and how his dealer/girlfriend prematurely gave birth to his twin daughters (which you should totally read) he tackles the question of memoirs, which have been so sorely tarnished in the last few years. More »
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books
Ex-Cokehead Times Reporter Shares His Rejection Letters
Here's New York Times culture reporter David Carr, pictured with his rehab group in 1988. (We told you about him earlier this morning.) His forthcoming book, The Night of the Gun, re-creates his crack-shooting past through interviewing people—he's admitted that memories, especially his, cannot always be relied on. Thus, we are treated to a history of mugshots, medical records, and awesome rejection letters from the New Yorker. "There I was, less than a year sober, pitching my tale of woe," Carr writes in the book about this 1989 pitch for his cocaine-addiction story. (We scanned it; click to see.) More » -
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Times Reporter: "I Was A Fat Thug Who Beat Up Women And Sold Bad Coke"
How does David Carr pull this off? The Times media critic writes in his forthcoming memoir of drug addiction that he kidnapped his children, smacked around his girlfriends and left two babies in a near-freezing car on the street for hours while he got high. This in addition to dealing drugs and fathering crack babies, which we already knew about. It's all in his book excerpt from next Sunday's Times Magazine. And yet, after reading the account, it's remarkably hard to detest the guy.
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By Ryan TateComment by Mean_Ol_Liberal: Some behavioral flaws make one irredeemable. I'm not interested in your tale of self-inflicted hell that you so generously doled... more » | Other threads
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fox news
Fox News Plays Nice With Times Reporters It Hasn't Yet Smeared
Is the Fox News PR machine trying to get back in the good graces of the New York Times—and slyly drive a wedge between reporters there at the same time? The network's famously vicious media relations operation was ravaged in a David Carr column in the Times on Monday. But now that they've let Bill O'Reilly take his obligatory on-air shot at the paper, the network seems to have decided to play nice with Times reporters—at least, with some of them. More » -
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Did Fox News Smear Timesman Tim Arango?
Last week, Fox News aired nasty Photoshopped pictures of two Times journalists responsible for a story about Fox losing ground among younger viewers. But it sounds like the cable network may have done much worse to another Times reporter, Tim Arango, who wrote a similar article in March. In his column for tomorrow's paper, Times media columnist David Carr recounts tales of Fox's dirty-politics-style PR tactics against journalists from his paper, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press and others. One story, in particular, stands out: More » -
bonnie fuller
Times Incorrectly Portrays Bonnie Fuller As Sympathetic Figure
For unclear reasons, the Times felt compelled to hand a huge chunk of its Sunday Business section over to a profile of Bonnie Fuller—the woman most responsible for creating our nation's soul-destroying cast of powerful celebrity magazines—who was recently axed from her multimillion-dollar gig as editorial chief of American Media. A sympathetic profile! The news peg, purportedly: Bonnie Fuller is doing some vague new project on the internet. For women! With specifics to be determined! Color us skeptical. The Fuller that the Times describes does not sound like the woman who was so despised by her assistants that they put snot in her food. What's the major malfunction here? More »
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Comment by lizzybennet: @virgilicious: Considering all the ball sweat she has forced American females to ingest from her YM days onward, serves her... more » | Other threads
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film
David Carr On The New Hunter S. Thompson Documentary
New York Times media reporter David Carr—a former crack enthusiast—takes a look at Gonzo, the new documentary about legendary drugs-and-freedom-loving journalist Hunter S. Thompson. "Few writers have commodified narcissism so completely — his participatory style of journalism became its own genre and gives the film its title — but still we are invited to sit in the dark of the theater and have a flashback about his flashbacks. When the film opens on July 4, why will people, as Thompson would say, buy the ticket, take the ride?" More »
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new york times
Times Columnist 'Dreaming Of Cocaine'
David Carr of the New York Times, the newspaper's delightful media columnist, was roped into one of those incredibly boring panel discussions with which the city is plagued this week. One has to admire his ability to retreat into his own private world: Carr (second from right) is so motionless that he could be asleep as former Business 2.0 reporter Erick Schonfeld drones on about some new video service for startups. Our tipster, referring to the drug-addicted past as a "fulminating crackhead" that Carr recounts in his much-awaited memoir, imagines how the reformed writer made it through the session. The proposed caption: 'Dreaming of cocaine.'
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By Nick DentonComment by sailor: Or, I believe the Motor City Madman, Ted Nugent, used to refer to people with this condition as "doped out... more » | Other threads
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bad ideas
TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld to unleash world's worst startup pitches on the rest of us
When we worked together at Business 2.0, I always thought my then-colleague Erick Schonfeld was a bit of an evil genius. Now an editor at TechCrunch, Schonfeld hasn't proven me wrong. He's taking all of the boring startup spiels — "elevator pitches" — he gets from wantrepreneurs trooping through his office and turning them into content. All he has to do is sit back and hit "Record"; he doesn't actually have to do the critical thinking required to evaluate whether the ideas hold any promise, or even make sense. How boring is this idea? Look at David Carr from the New York Times, sitting two seats over from Schonfeld, who's fallen asleep just from listening to the idea. But I have no doubt this is the crowdsourced, video-enabled future of innovation journalism, folks.
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he-man woman-haters club
Wimmin! They use the Internet for their wimmin talk!
And on these sites, they even sometimes "expend a lot of serious effort on serious matters"! Like cooking! [David Carr, New York Times]
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By Nick DouglasComment by VeganRampage: I must not be a woman either, because I too have never heard of those sites, I loathe Sex and... more » | Other threads
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new york times
David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead'
David Carr is a charming and competent media reporter, commuting to the New York Times from bourgeois Montclair where he lives with wife Jill and three children. But once he was in his own words a fulminating crackhead. Here's a sample from his forthcoming addiction memoir, obtained by Daily Intel: "Both of us were chronically, psychotically high, and I was spending all of my time lifting the blinds and peeking out at a world that I was increasingly scared to venture into."
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By Nick DentonComment by Hey_mikey: I'm assuming David Carr is on Team Nilla? Which makes him rare indeed - caucasian folks who a. smoked crack... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Massacred Film Critics Have a Friend in Scott Rudin
The film-critic deathwatch we launched here way back in January (and continued yesterday) hit The New York Times this morning, when part-time Oscar gadfly and inveterate media observer David Carr surveyed the carnage from the sidelines. It's not a story we haven't been hearing for years, but Carr's essential access to insiders from Scott Rudin to Michael Lacey — the bloodthirsty boss of the New Times chain currently decimating New York's Village Voice — hints that conventional wisdom among film and publishing types won't be reconciled any time soon: More »
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