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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,...

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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...

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Brian Stelter Gets Misty-Eyed Over Old Nickelodeon Shows

Mr. Stelter, fan of 'Doug.' 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...

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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,...

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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....

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Nine Additional Symbols for the Curator’s Code

This weekend's biggest Internet news involves The Curator's Code, a new system  "for honoring the creative and intellectual labor of information discovery by making attribution consistent and...

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Jill Abramson Plays the Tech Neophyte at SXSW

This talk was covered six ways to Sunday. (http://www.imagethink.net) New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson spoke at SXSW in Austin, Tex. yesterday, further proof of her tolerance for...

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Attempts to Answer the Question: ‘What is Yahoo!?’

David Carr used his Media Equation column this week to ask: What is Yahoo? pegged to the new appointment of former Google-r Marissa Meyer in the company's top spot. It's a funny column ("After five...

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Media Briefs: Let Pat Kiernan Live!

Can we just let NY1’s Pat Kiernan live? Fareed Zakaria apparently can't, at least not with all these haters. Neither can a food journalist upset over food journalists dictating the world's food fads,...

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Fear of a Black Pundit: Ta-Nehisi Coates raises his voice in American media

Before Ta-Nehisi Coates was a superstar at The Atlantic, he was fired from three consecutive writing jobs. Well, not quite fired. “I’m still not exactly sure what happened,” he said, sipping a single...

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David Carr Ran into Amanda Bynes in the Emergency Room

What are the odds? New York Times media reporter David Carr slipped in the rain on Thursday night and broke his arm in three places. In an odd twist of fate, Mr. Carr, while waiting to be treated at...

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Erin Lee Carr Leaves Vice for The Verge

Erin Lee Carr. Erin Lee Carr has left Vice, where she was a video producer, for The Verge. Ms. Carr, daughter of Times media reporter David, joins The Verge as a video producer and will work on video...

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Morning Media Mix

(Illustration by Lauren Payne.) Just when it looked like all hope was lost for serious news, "an unlikely cavalry has come roaring over the hill with serious money, fresh ideas and no small amount of...

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Morning Media Mix

(Illustration by Lauren Payne.) "What if Gawker tried to out an anchor at Fox News and no one cared?" writes David Carr. But what if David Carr devoted a whole column to said outing of a Fox anchor and...

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