Remembering when David Carr took on Vice

Remembering when David Carr took on Vice

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Remembering when David Carr took on Vice

Tim Walker (editedFeb 13, 2015 David Carr, the popular New York Times media columnist, died suddenly at the paper’s newsroom on Tuesday evening. He was 58. A caustic, charismatic commentator, Carr became the unexpected star of Page One, a 2011 documentary about the Times. As well as writing the weekly “Media Equation” column, he was also the author of a 2008 memoir, Night of the Gun, in which he reported his own struggle with crack cocaine addiction, and his subsequent recovery. This clip from a 2011 documentary shows Carr interviewing the three founders of Vice - and after they implied that Vice's coverage of Liberia was better than the New York Times's, he retorts: Before you ever went there, we've had reporters there reporting on genocide after genocide. Just because you put on a f**kin' safari helmet and looked at some poop doesn't give you the right to insult what we do.

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He is survived by his wife Jill, their daughter Maddie and two other twin daughters, Erin and Meagan. More: Remembering what Lord Barnett has to say about his formula

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