David Carr

Рождение : , Minnesota, USA

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Carr is a media and culture columnist for the New York Times. His 2008 memoir, The Night of the Gun, details his past experiences with cocaine addiction. The memoir was excerpted in the New York Times Magazine, published early, and was an instant best seller. In it, David Carr interviews people from his past, tackling his memoir as if he were reporting on himself. He appeared on the August 5th, 2008 episode of The Colbert Report and on the June 24th, 2011 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. He commented on the show that the states of Kansas and Missouri are the land of "the low-sloping foreheads." Carr was born and raised in Minnesota and is a former editor of the Twin Cities Reader and the Washington City Paper. He currently resides in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife Jill. They have three children. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Carr (journalist), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Black & White and Dead All Over
Himself
A documentary of the difficulties printed newspapers are going through concentrating on the loss of investigative journalism.
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Self - Journalist, New York Times
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality for whistleblowers and the press. The film includes interviews with whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl and Thomas Tamm and award-winning journalists like David Carr, Lucy Dalglish, Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Michael Isikoff, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton, Jane Mayer, Dana Priest, Tom Vanden Brook and Sharon Weinberger.
Page One: Inside the New York Times
Self
Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity.
Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements
Himself
For some aging music fans and kids with a passion for musical history, The Replacements are rock and roll defined. Gorman Bechard's remarkable history of the 'Mats takes us from their first show as the Impediments to their 1991 onstage breakup in Chicago, and everywhere in between. Bechard bravely eschews including the band's music, photos, and live footage, instead relying solely on the fans: their well-kept memories, hilarious anecdotes, and differing points of views about the foursome's wildly varied discography and infamous antics.
Paris Hilton Inc.: The Selling of Celebrity
Self
We are drowning in celebrity culture and certainly no tabloid topic has been as big as Paris Hilton. Her incarceration and subsequent release, then re-incarceration and her ultimate release once again-left us submerged knee-deep in the twists and turns of her life. Famous for doing nothing, she's the ultimate manifestation of our obsession with celebrity culture and the massive profits that it wields. As long as we are willing to watch and read, who can resist feeding our habit?
Da Vinci Declassified
Writer
Da Vinci Declassified
Director
Video Game Invasion: The History of a Global Obsession
Director
A breakthrough documentary on the multi-billion dollar industry & the pioneers behind the blips on the screen. Decades later it's all gone extreme! Go beyond the pixels and behind the scenes for the true story about video games. Hosted by Tony Hawk, world champion skateboarder and co-creator of such hit video games as "Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater" and "Tony Hawk’s Underground," VIDEO GAME INVASION explores the creation of video games in an entertaining and comprehensive fashion, taking viewers through the maze of games that comprised the evolution of video gaming.
Leo Mania
Director
He's the Hollywood Heartthrob who starred in the most successful movie in history, the $2 billion theatrical box office blockbuster Titanic and received am Academy Award nomination when he was still in his teens. He's the modern day James Dean who set the screen on fire in William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, and has captured female hearts from teenagers to senior citizens.