David Carr, Media Equation column, blogs @ Decoder, covers pop culture at NYTimes. Tweets hi-low, news, whatnot. Author: Night of the Gun. amzn.to/lhYAP5
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We live at a time when all can be seen and watched. Also a time when a Boeing 777 can disappear without a trace. It's a bit of a riddle
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Here's an idea. Let's not give it to the guy who has scored more than anybody in NFL. Let's pass instead.
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Brave to put Kim Novak on and show what a culture that is hooked on youth can do to a person.
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>@nickbilton left me a VM because he thought I'm actually ancient enough to still listen to them. Took the bait. ouch. #gotyermessage
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If any other plague was leaving piles of dead bodies all over the country, including children, our country would figure it out.
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Investigative journo @ChuckCJohnson offers $50 for digging up mugshot that was, um, on cover of an NYT bestseller.
I would really want David Carr's mugshot. Get it for me and I'll send you $50. He grew up in Minneapolis & has lived in DC & NJ.
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Relief Work in Ebola Zone Is Fraught With Risk nyti.ms/1uDLI9C @jswatz on the price of heroism.
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Jon Stewart changed journalism before journalism was ready to change wapo.st/1zVS9VV
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Mulled Hoffman's death over coffee yesterday. Opened Medium and jotted thoughts. 34K readers later, am stunned. medium.com/profiles-in-vain/…
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Calling Out Bill Cosby’s Media Enablers, Including Myself nyti.ms/1yLWlFL
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Either the size of a sleeve of Girl Scout cookies has shrunk or my ability to experience shame has.
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>@KevinSpacey wins for best photo bomb in history. That boy knows how to find the middle of things.
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One of those snowflakes refused to open in a silent protest. Fight the power, little snow flake.
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RIP Bob Simon, a television storyteller without peer. cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-co… Dies in 2 car crash in Manhattan.
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The 651 is one if the finest pieces of reporting technology ever conceived. Compact, searchable, with great U/I.
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Why does John Oliver's show work so well? nytimes.com/2014/11/17/busin… We learn stuff rather than getting bias confirmed. #smugantidote
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Dropping kid off at college collapses the joy/sadness continuum to the width of a human hair.
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Whodunit? Sarah Koenig, that's who. If you ain't listing to @serial, yer missing a remarkable look into not just a murder, but reporting.
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Dear Rob Ford: From one recovering fat crackhead to another: stop talking. People don't care what you say, they watch what you do.
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I consider it one of the privileges of my career that I got to work with @JillAbramson. Talented, smart, a great journalist.
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Why Medium is the best writing tool on the Web today. slate.me/1hXGv3y late to this. compelled by @mattyglesias' take.
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My bit on meaning and importance of lack of Oscar noms for director of and actor in #Selma nyti.ms/1yApy9u
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My story on how Saul became the man to call. nytimes.com/2015/01/18/arts/… Deep dive into #BetterCallSaul AMC's new prequel to #BreakingBad
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Cops in #Ferguson seem to lack one tool in their fancy array of crowd control measures Common sense. gawker.com/here-is-an-archiv…
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Wwant a little Game of Thrones before tonight's Game of Thrones? Here's my column on week that was at NYT nytimes.com/2014/05/19/busin… #bloody
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Brian Williams adds bit by bit to a story, ends up a long way from the truth. nyti.ms/1ER6Kq0 My bit on perils of celebrity anchor.
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Could a big bowl of #Serial and others disrupt public radio? nytimes.com/2014/11/24/busin… My bit on absence of friction = rise of podcasts
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Sometimes when I am feeling troll-y, I type something bitchy into the box and let it sit there. It gets less witty by the second.
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My column on @ChuckCJohnson's anger management and the high cost of free speech. nytimes.com/2014/12/15/busin… #fireextinguisherorcanofgas?
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Being on Twitter over holiday is like staying in town when everyone else flees. Quiet and charming.
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Serial podcast points to way forward & challenges for public radio nyti.ms/1qXdUnp My Monday bit on great radio that isn't radio.
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Jill Abramson knows when you are offered a ride at #sxsw, you can't get picky about your seat. #elranchero
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#TheInterviewMovie was not on my Xmas movie list, but I loathe the attack on speech, so the hell with it, #Iwouldgo
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George Saunders's Advice to Graduates nyti.ms/17sfWeW It's remarkable/of a piece w/David Foster Wallace Kenyon address.
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Have zero emotional reaction to such-and-such famous person found dead. Not so w/Phil Hoffman. online.wsj.com/news/articles… Great actor/human.
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When buying a newspaper becomes an act in support of speech. nytimes.com/2015/01/15/busin… My bit on #CharlieHebdo
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How print is getting clobbered by shimmering allure of the Now. My mid-summer thumb sucker. mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/2…
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My UberX driver in SF is Nancy, a lovely deaf woman driving a Tesla. shine on, you crazy diamond.
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After prolonged exposure to today's youth at BU and Berkeley Journo commencements, have concluded; We'll be fine. Great in fact.
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Been on Twitter for about 100 years, but still don't get or use Favorites. I'm stupid like that.
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Pulling back the curtain at The New York Times bit.ly/1hizHvk
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People can pick all the nits they want with #GoneGirl, felt like my time/money were extremely well spent. #agoodmovieishardtofind
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I'll admit that Carlos Danger is a decent porn name, but not sure he needed a better one that Anthony Weiner.
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The wrestler: My bit on Philp Seymour Hoffman medium.com/p/35b8b00ce82c
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If I tweet ANYTHING about #worldcup, ignore. Just empty leap at bandwagon. Have no idea what any of it means.
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I read little that ever changes my opinion. this @xeni about medical pot and cancer turned my head. Hard. boingboing.net/2014/12/23/ca…
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Love the picks this year. Jane, Transparent, Fargo. Not the usual suspects. HBO prolly not too happy with the trend.
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Why I love print NYT. Check cheeky, hilarious cut line. "Poker faces and a pair of queens." #walkoffhomer
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The best 13:17 minutes you will spend this week. John Oliver goes there on most boring topic in universe. piped.video/fpbOEoRrHyU
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How the idiot box gained cultural salience and ruined my life. nyti.ms/1cHeD59
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Sony hack pulls back curtain on a rogue's gallery of cowardice. nyti.ms/1GLiqZS My bit on Hollywood spinelessness. #playthemovie
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Actors can be difficult, but Philip Seymour Hoffman was always kind and patient to newsies. A very easy guy to cover and to like.
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Bought pair of 20 lb dumbbells at Sports Authority. Young clerk: "Would you like some help getting those to your car?" Gee, thanks.
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The fact that people who are able to buy anything still want to buy into journalism is all the proof you need. ti.me/195KEkL
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Published my first post on Medium today. The best typewriter on the Internet -- so intuitive it seems psychic.medium.com/p/35b8b00ce82c
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Plan on boycotting any retail outlet that opened on Thanksgiving. Not a big shopper, but find the Black Friday encroachment repulsive.
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"People still using Twitter, but they’re not hanging out there" bit.ly/1kvpUpl Atlantic sez Twitter over in bit I found on Twitter
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Michael Cera does not need a hug. nyti.ms/13uPyWu My profile in Sunday Arts and Leisure.
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So I pose w/James Brown for famed photog @nickbilton and I look like the one who is back from the dead. Sheesh.
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Is Miley Cyrus worth thinking about? @JonCaramanica does a grand job of explaining the fuss. nyti.ms/GEEax5
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Steven Levy leaving Wired, going to Medium to make a new site as part of editorial push there. nyti.ms/1lq6F2i
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Onion to writers: Tweet incredibly edgy, funny stuff. If you go over the line, we'll just slide you under the bus.
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CNN melts under pressure of the big story. nyti.ms/12yQlBZ My Monday column autopsy.
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Times Sq a forest of selfie sticks and police ops. Time to go home. Happy New Year, you hardy, grand fools.
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Steve Jobs kept his kids away from iPads. @nickbilton mulls kids and tech. mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/1…
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Philip Seymour Hoffman died a year ago today. Now gone, but not forgotten. My post from last year: medium.com/@carr2n/the-wrest…
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Why do I get the feeling that the person naming storms for Weather Channel has a killer medical marijuana card?
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Talked to Bono in Dublin last week abt iTunes caper. He's working on the apology for the apology. nyti.ms/1Eiwtms #mediaequation
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China’s Army Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S. nyti.ms/VCAUbH A very scary story. The next phase is here.
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My bit: "The Last Magazine" evokes tree house full of like-minds who don't hear the distant sawing sound below. nyti.ms/1j3owaN
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Politco to @JillAbramson: Lean Backward. And while you're at it, quit acting like you run the joint.
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Dammit, Google, you keep making free stuff that is so darn useful. bit.ly/19eqmm3 A great toolkit for newsies.
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