RIP David Carr

[TheSportsPredictor]

New York Times columnist passes, according to several NYT writers on Twitter.

 

[MileHigh]

WTF??!! Wow.

 

[Small Town Guy]

Supposedly collapsed in the newsroom tonight and died. Unbelievable. He was supposed to be hosting even with Greenwald and company tonight. Obviously loved his Times work, but also loved his old Minnesota stuff and roots. Blended old school and new media brilliantly. And his passion for The Times was just awesome to see.

 

[Boom_70]

Wow that's effed up. He just had a big story yesterday on Brian Williams and Jon Stewart

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/1...st-for-the-times-is-dead-at-58.html?referrer=

 

[Double Down]

The way this is trickling out is way weird. Times employees tweeting about his death, then being asked by other Times employees on Twitter to take those tweets down. David Carr would have a funny column to write if it wasn't true.

 

[MileHigh]

Just got the push alert from the NYT.

Fifty-frickin-eight.

 

[LongTimeListener]

58 hard years though, which he had been very honest about.

That is a pisser, though. He was at the top of his game.

 

[MileHigh]

The way this is trickling out is way weird. Times employees tweeting about his death, then being asked by other Times employees on Twitter to take those tweets down. David Carr would have a funny column to write if it wasn't true.

Weird? I suspect they were asked to take down the tweets until as much of the immediate family could be informed. Just as we here took down posts when SF died suddenly so the immediate family could be properly notified.

 

[SnarkShark]

What a ****ing week.

 

[YankeeFan]

Yikes. That's crazy.

 

[YankeeFan]

I now inhabit a life I don’t deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn’t end any time soon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20Carr-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

[Amy]

I didn't always agree with him and not sure I liked him after reading his book, but I still read columns.

We are almost the same age, grew up near each other. Our social circles overlapped. We frequented some of the same bars. I have no memory of ever meeting him.

 

[YankeeFan]

The outpouring of grief and emotion from his friends and colleagues last night was something.

He was admittedly not a good person for a number of years, but he appears to have been very popular with his colleagues, and in just an hour or so, I read of a number of examples of his generosity.

As a writer and reporter, he was admired by folks across the political spectrum.

 

[YankeeFan]

David Carr, A1:

 

[Dick Whitman]

I'm willing to concede them that indulgence.

 

[YankeeFan]

It wasn't a criticism.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Not a particularly nice thought when someone dies. ... but the last few years, when I'd see him do TV appearances, I was always thinking "That guy doesn't look very healthy."

 

[Dick Whitman]

Not a particularly nice thought when someone dies. ... but the last few years, when I'd see him do TV appearances, I was always thinking "That guy doesn't look very healthy."

Yeah, Ragu, when I saw this news pop up last night, I didn't know whether this was surprising news or something where he had terminal cancer or something that I'd forgotten about.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

The outpouring of grief and emotion from his friends and colleagues last night was something.

He was admittedly not a good person for a number of years, but he appears to have been very popular with his colleagues, and in just an hour or so, I read of a number of examples of his generosity.

As a writer and reporter, he was admired by folks across the political spectrum.

He seems to have not taken his second chance for granted.