The death of New York Times media critic David Carr has been greeted with a universal outpouring of affection and grief for a man who “was sometimes blunt, almost always searingly honest,” in the words of Times executive editor Dean Baquet. I guess I don’t entirely agree. None of the articles I read about Carr mentioned the fact that…
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No tears for Brian Williams
Did you hear about former NBC nightly news host Brian Williams? Well, if you haven’t, he’s out, and all the complaints about an outrageous and hypocritical media firestorm can’t conceal the fact that the petard on which poor Brian self-hoisted and self-destructed was a cream-puff nightly news item about a non-event starring Brian himself! Did…