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VVM Admits Underage Prostitution Exists, Maintains It’s Not Their Fault

This week's Village Voice cover story is an installment in an ongoing investigative series The Truth Behind Sex Trafficking, which aims to debunk alarmist and overblown statistics about prostitution. The article (by Kristen Hinman who was a longtime writer for other VVM publications) posits that underage prostitution does exist, tragically, but it's largely conducted voluntarily and Read More

Geez, Dad! David Carr Dissed Daughter’s Boss in Page One

One of the most memorable moments in the New York Times documentary Page One took place in the offices of Vice magazine, when Vice co-founder Shane Smith, while being interviewed by David Carr, compared The New York Times coverage of Liberia with that put out by his own outfit. “And The New York Times, meanwhile, Read More

Brian Stelter Gets Misty-Eyed Over Old Nickelodeon Shows

In one of the more quotable moments from the documentary Page One, media reporter David Carr refers to his colleague, television reporter Brian Stelter, as "a robot created by The New York Times to destroy me." Since then, Mr. Stelter's been doing damage control on his metallic reputation. He's escorted CNBC beauty Nicole Lapin down Read More

David Carr or Bear Grylls? Stargazing at the NYT’s New Celebrity

The Most Exciting Documentary In The Entire History Of The (Navel-Gazing Media Reporting) Universe™, Page One, is coming to a limited-release cinema near you.

And with it, a star is born: New York Times media reporter David Carr.

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Aaron Sorkin Still Hates Bloggers: New York Times Edition

The Social Network screenwriter, West Wing creator, and Making Movies playwright Aaron Sorkin has taken every available chance to assail bloggers that he's been given. Incredibly, he's been given many, and he continues to use them to take the opportunity to reiterate his tired anti-blogger rhetoric time and time again. Yet: his latest swipe—backhanded, sniveling, and skeptical of a proven New York Times reporter if only because of said reporter's background as a blogger—is especially impressive. Read More

Greed is Good — for Décor!

Homeless men idled outside the Four Seasons restaurant as financial titans and celebrities shuttled in from the rain, assisted by burly bouncers. Upstairs, at Monday’s postpremiere party for HBO’s Too Big to Fail—based on the book by New York Times financial reporter wunderkind Andrew Ross Sorkin—sprawling platters of sushi and ceviche awaited consumption.

“Well,” Read More

Jon Stewart Explains His Problem With Cable News

Rachel Maddow devoted Thursday night's entire episode of her MSNBC show to an interview with Jon Stewart. The "Daily Show" host addressed criticism of his recent D.C. rally and outlined his issues with MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News.

The Oct. 30 "Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear" on the National Mall was attended by about Read More

David Carr as Doctor Moreau: Talking to Lizards

David Carr let his freak flag fly on his most recent vacation.

The New York Times columnist spent his six day vacation on Deadman's Cay -- a tiny, remote island in the Bahamas.

"Should I cook you dinner?" he asks a terrified gecko. "I will not cook you for dinner." Long pause. "You are invited, though."

The four-minute Read More

The Cult of Jon Stewart Fires Back at Media Critics

Much of Jon Stewart's schtick involves critiquing the media, but those who question Stewart face the wrath of his devoted followers.

At his Oct. 30 "Rally to Restore Fear and/or Sanity" where he spoke before approximately 200,000 supporters, Stewart focused on the press, or as he described it, “the country’s 24-hour political pundit perpetual panic Read More

Ten Days Later: Dave Weigel What-Does-It-All Mean Moments

Howard Kurtz and David Carr took 10 days to chew the cud of Dave Weigel.

Mr. Kurtz and Mr. Carr, the head media columnists at the Washington Post and The New York Times respectively, offered post–holiday weekend columns today that reflect on the case of the former Washington Post blogger who by now has already Read More

Does Anyone Want to Seriously Buy Newsweek?

David Carr is not high on Newsweek's prospects for finding many potential suitors.

He reports that Thomson Reutuers, which took an early look at buying the magazine, is no longer interested. He said that parlor game favorites like The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast are also not interested.

He did find one potential buyer: "Sidney Read More

The Best Business Model for Local News: All of Them

This week in The Times David Carr takes a look at MinnPost.com, a regional news site based in Minneapolis and run by Joel Kramer, a former editor, publisher and president of the Star Tribune.

Mr. Kramer is a career newspaper man, who began his work in the news business at age 12 as a Read More

On Headlines, or ‘Monica Lewinsky Boyfriend: My Date With Bill Clinton’s Blow Job Intern’

David Carr marvels at the maddeningly low-brow, mystically formulaic craft of writing headlines for the web in his column today.

Mr. Carr presents an example from The Huffington Post — "Obama Rejects Rush Limbaugh Golf Match: Rush 'Can Play With Himself'" — to show what best practice has to offer in 2010.

It’s digital Read More

Eye Opener: Monserrate on the Prowl

The fairytale romance of Hiram Monserrate and Karla Giraldo ends. [NYP]

Syracuse students didn't really get naked to protest Jamie Dimon. [NYP]

Uncharted frontiers of fatty meat: sheep-pig bacon. [NYDN]

Analyzing NBC's leaked fall lineup. [BI]

Gramercy Park showdown! [WSJ]

David Carr meta-protests online headlines. [NYT]

Cuomo to pick Read More

Vanden Heuvel on New Nation Site: ‘We Will Never Be in the Business of Assigning Stories to Get Clicks’

"Maybe you're even reading [this column] on your smartphone or Kindle,” speculated Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel in a blog post introducing the redesigned TheNation.com, which went live last night. “It's now far more likely you found us on Twitter than in a bookstore, and you might be following my blog Read More