David Carr’s Journalism

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No Fear

“I’ve been a single parent, I’ve been poor, I waited tables, I was an addict and in recovery. It makes things that would or should seem scary seem not so scary at all. There’s nothing that could happen to me at work that would seem scarier than other things that have happened throughout my life.

“I mean, I still get nervous. I still get nervous about making that call, I’d circle the phone, but I always make the call. You have to. That’s journalism.”
 

—David Carr (1956-2015), journalist, in Amanda Connolly, “A life of survival: David Carr of The New York Times,” The Edition, 2013

• Editorial Comment: What’s the worst that could happen?

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