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David Carr vs. Some Guys from VICE

AudenRaybourn · 382.6K views · 2011-11-28 · 2:31

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Overview

A clip from the documentary Page One in which New York Times reporter David Carr interviews and confronts the founders of Vice magazine over their media deal. It captures tension between old and new media in 2010.

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Brought up whenever Vice is discussed, as a memorable scene of Carr pressing its founders.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2015–2024

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krebby · 2015-02 · Strong recommendation

One of the best scenes from Page One: [VIDEO] Carr talks to the Vice guys about their deal with CNN: "Just because you put on a fucking safari helmet and looked at some poop, doesn't give you the right to insult what we do."

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vanyamarka · 2023-05 · Recommendation

There's an interesting confrontation over that piece in the NY Times 'Page Six' documentary, which filmed David Carr, the Times's then media correspondent, interviewing the Vice Founders: [VIDEO] I think part of the Vice pitch was always that it was a disruptor of the old-fashioned media narratives, uncovering the stories to which boring old media was blind. I tend to agree with Carr's implicit critique here that we undervalue the journalistic, societal value of the sort of unglamorous coverage in which traditional media invests and at which it excels.

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adfm · 2024-02 · Criticism

The current top story on vice.com, “Inside the Christian Nationalist Church Where Proud Boys Go to be Baptized,” is a bit thick. “Meaner, faster, and more dynamic.” Ha! David Carr had their number off the bat: [VIDEO]

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