
Gut Check: The 540th Obituary on David Carr (All Well-Deserved)
A lot of people have written about New York Times guy David Carr, who died last week.

A lot of people have written about New York Times guy David Carr, who died last week.

New York Times media columnist David Carr died of complications from metastatic lung cancer, according to autopsy results released Saturday.

Primarily a media and culture writer, Carr was one of the most established brands at the most established publication, yet he approached his topics earnestly and with markedly less cynicism than most of his mainstream media peers. A perfect illustration of that is the exceptional 2600-word obituary, “The Provocateur,” he penned after the death of Andrew Breitbart.

David Carr, a media columnist for the New York Times who sought to understand conservative media, died suddenly on Thursday night after collapsing in the Times newsroom. Carr was both a critic of, and a friend to, conservative new media, and was one