Carr: I like tension in conflict. The thing that was so great about the way carr did it as it was a moment when sort of the news industry was in this sort of defensive, like, fedal position. And i loved those columns. It was fun to be part of one of those columns. But i went away for a couple weeks over the summer, and just realize i had these, like, things i was really excited about that i hadn't gotten a chance to batyesi just sort of piled them all into a column.
Ben Smith is the media columnist for The New York Times. He was the founding editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.
”I do think there's some kind of personality flaw deep in there of wanting to like, you know, find stuff out and tell people.... I'm not sure that's a totally sane or healthy personality trait, but it is definitely, for me, a personality trait…. I think that in political reporting, certainly, there's a kind of reporter who thinks that their job is basically to pull the masks off of these monsters. And I generally tend to think all these people—with some exceptions—are weird and complicated and often doing really awful things. But they aren't necessarily irredeemable or impossible to understand…. They're interesting.”
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