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“Just b/c you put on a safari hat and look at some poop on the beach doesn’t give you the right to criticize what we do.” That was badass…I’ve enjoyed some of the reporting by Vice, but this dipshit talking about the NYT doing surfing in a mtg w/David Carr is a raging idiot.
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Here’s David Carr’s own followup last fall. It shows even more than the video what a candid journalist he really was:
Its Edge Intact, Vice Is Chasing Hard News
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“doesn’t give you the right to insult what we do,”
I’m guessing that subject didn’t come up during the Greenwald/Poitras/Snowden interview.
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Indeed. Thanks for the follow-up with that Carr column. The “surfing” line was an immature cheap shot and I don’t blame Carr for reacting the way he did. But the fact remains - as Carr himself points out - that VICE is reporting stories that others are not. There’s real value in that. And the story from that exchange shouldn’t be Carr allegedly “owning” the dude, but the fact that an outfit like VICE can get stories the paper of record cannot.
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Or the lead up to the Iraq War. Anyone remember Judith Miller?
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“I’m just saying I’m not a journalist…” “Obviously.”