At the risk of this blog becoming a\u00a0collection of\u00a0obituaries, it is important to recognize the passing of a man who The New York Times executive\u00a0editor\u00a0called, “the finest media reporter of his generation.” Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the Time’s publisher and chairman, said,\u00a0\u201cDavid Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.\u201d<\/p>\n
David Carr, media reporter for The\u00a0New York Times newspaper, was an enigma. No one\u00a0who knew him in his earlier life as a crack addict and single\u00a0parent on welfare could\u00a0have seen his rise to celebrity reporter for, arguably, the greatest journalistic enterprise of the modern age.<\/p>\n
In his regular Monday column,\u00a0The Media Equation<\/a>, Carr dissected the media industry and\u00a0many of its key players. His writing\u00a0was often acerbic but always insightful. If all that you knew about the media industries was what you read in David Carr’s columns, you’d be pretty well-informed. If he hadn’t died last week I’m sure that he would have had something pithy to say about the 3.5 hour-long 40th anniversary of SNL that aired this past weekend. And you can be sure that he’d have written something both\u00a0relevant and revealing\u00a0about the upcoming Academy Awards telecast this Sunday. Carr did live long enough to weigh in on the very public implosion of NBC News anchor Brian Williams and his\u00a0article<\/a> will give you insight into both Williams and Carr, (and the delicate balance between fame and trust), if you take\u00a0the time to read it.<\/p>\n You can read more about David Carr at the NYT website<\/a>. Or,\u00a0for the visually-inspired crowd, watch Page One<\/em>, a documentary<\/a> about The Times, in which Carr has a starring role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the risk of this blog becoming a\u00a0collection of\u00a0obituaries, it is important to recognize the passing of a man who The New York Times executive\u00a0editor\u00a0called, “the finest media reporter of his generation.” Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the Time’s publisher and chairman, said,\u00a0\u201cDavid Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at … <\/p>\n