Remembering David Carr

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  The New York Times

  

  David Carr, Times Critic and Champion of Media, Dies at 58

  The New York Times - By Bruce Weber and Ashley Southall

  David Carr, who wriggled away from the demon of drug addiction to become a journalistic celebrity, a name-brand media columnist at The New York Times and a best-selling author who reported on his own near demise and recovery, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 58. Mr. Carr collapsed in the Times …

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  The New York Times

  

  David Carr, a Journalist at the Center of the Sweet Spot

  The New York Times - By A.O. Scott

  For a while, a few years ago, there was a weekly video on the New York Times website called The Sweet Spot, taped during off hours in the cafeteria on the 14th floor. The idea was that it would be an informal, incisive discussion of various developments in the world of culture and media. Sometimes …

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  The New York Times

  

  The Quotable David Carr

  The New York Times

  David Carr was often more quotable than the personalities he wrote about. His plainspoken style was sometimes blunt, and searingly honest about himself. The effect was both folksy and sophisticated, a voice from a shrewd and well-informed skeptic. Here’s a selection of his writing and public …

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  The New York Times

  

  Both Hero and Villain, and Irresistible

  The New York Times - By David Carr

  Before there was a documentary about WikiLeaks — before there was a major motion picture about its founder — Julian Assange was a star. With his mysterious hacker back story and shock of silver hair, Mr. Assange burst into public consciousness in 2010 with WikiLeaks’ release of the Apache helicopter …

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  The New York Times

  

  Unarrested Development

  The New York Times - By David Carr

  Early on in “This Is the End,” a fame-inflected look at the end of days, Michael Cera, played by Michael Cera, is impaled and hoisted high above Los Angeles, wriggling, covered in blood and patting his pockets for his lost cellphone. He finds the phone, but the rest of it doesn’t go so well. “We had …

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  The New York Times

  

  Journalism, Even When It’s Tilted

  The New York Times - By David Carr

  In a refracted media world where information comes from everywhere, the line between two “isms” — journalism and activism — is becoming difficult to discern. As American news media have pulled back from international coverage, nongovernmental organizations have filled in the gaps with on-the-scene …