Video of (late) David Carr interviewing Greenwald, Snowden etc. in Manhattan hours before he died

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Jon Swaine ?@jonswaine 1h1 hour ago
NYT video of David Carr interviewing @ggreenwald, @laurapoitras and Edward Snowden in Manhattan a few hours ago: http://timestalks.com/laura-poitras-glenn-greenwald-edward-snowden.html …




Jordan Raup ?@jpraup
Here's the full interview David Carr did just a few hours ago with the Citizenfour team: http://new.livestream.com/accounts/43597/events/3800646 …




Kevin Gosztola ?@kgosztola
Stunning David Carr was lively & engaged in panel on "Citizenfour" then hours later died at Times office. RIP

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1. kick

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2. that applause at the beginning is tremendous nt

[elias49]

3. Must watch!

I just saw Citizenfour last week. (finally)
Tremendous movie!

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4. .

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5. Coincidence?

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8. Queue the DU CT police!! Conspiracy theory clean up on ailse 3! nt

[deurbano]

6. Joan Walsh was at the Citizenfour event. (And David Carr had an amazing life story.)

Somehow, I don't remember hearing of Carr before, but he had an amazing life story (which involved bottoming out as a junkie), and he was astonishingly candid about it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20Carr-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=aut&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000

Joan Walsh was at the Citizenfourevent:

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/13/david_carr_rumpled_mensch_and_writers%E2%80%99_writer_dies_on_the_job/

FRIDAY, FEB 13, 2015 05:07 AM PST
David Carr, rumpled mensch and writers’ writer, dies on the job
I watched him talk to the team behind “Citizenfour.” He was funny, happy and coughing a lot. An hour later, he died

JOAN WALSH
On Twitter Thursday night, I tried to fight the rumor that beloved New York Times media columnist David Carr died the same evening. I’d seen him less than three hours earlier, interviewing Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Edward Snowden (via satellite) at a sold out “Times Talk.” He was sharp and funny; he seemed happy; he had a bad cough. But he could not possibly be dead.

Sadly, within minutes of my pushback Tweet, the Times confirmed his death, and two generations of journalists collectively stopped our posturing and grieved. That’s because Carr was an admirable and inimitable writer and reporter, but he was also uncommonly generous to colleagues with praise and encouragement; hilarious, affectionate. A recovering addict and hustler turned alt-newsweekly editor turned media critic, he was an unlikely Timesman, but he helped reinvent our notion of a Timesman. And the Times will be forever better for it.

Quickly, the things that I remember: He was effusive about Poitras’s award-winning Snowden film, “Citizenfour,” praising it as art as well as documentary; he told the filmmaker he couldn’t sleep after watching it, unsettled by its revelations about our surveillance state, which he meant as high praise. When Greenwald tried to make light of his 2013 Pulitzer Prize as old news, the ambitious Carr gruffly owned up to jealousy, and assured Greenwald that he would be milking it forever if he’d won one.

Carr asked more personal questions than political ones: how scared were they, what did they think would happen, and did they think the intelligence community simply scared the hell out of President Obama to make him collude with their secrecy and surveillance (a sympathetic Snowden essentially said yes.) He channeled worried journalists, asking if we should really fear that everything we do on the Web and with our phones is spied on (yes, use Tor as a browser and find encryption software for your email and texts.) And he mocked himself by saying “I’m channeling mothers here,” then asking Snowden if he was doing alright and getting enough to eat (Snowden said yes.) I waved at him as he left the stage; I think he smiled at me. Then he was gone….>>

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15. He asked some very pertinent questions. The last paragraph from the OP are questions

many journalists are wondering about themselves:

Carr asked more personal questions than political ones: how scared were they, what did they think would happen, and did they think the intelligence community simply scared the hell out of President Obama to make him collude with their secrecy and surveillance (a sympathetic Snowden essentially said yes.) He channeled worried journalists, asking if we should really fear that everything we do on the Web and with our phones is spied on (yes, use Tor as a browser and find encryption software for your email and texts.) And he mocked himself by saying “I’m channeling mothers here,” then asking Snowden if he was doing alright and getting enough to eat (Snowden said yes.) I waved at him as he left the stage; I think he smiled at me. Then he was gone….

And he really was gone sadly ....

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7. Brilliant interview. Another real loss to the journalism community

K&R

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9. I wonder what he died from. He had survived cancer and addiction to crack rock.

RIP David Carr.

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10. One of his friends mentioned (on Twitter) being pissed that Carr had kept smoking, since he would

miss him so much, so I guess lung cancer or something related to smoking. I didn't watch the interview, yet, but Joan Walsh mentioned his cough. He looked very skinny.

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11. Another huge talent lost to a horrible drug.

I don't know which is more dangerous, crack rock or cigarettes.

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12. I realize you already knew about the crack (whereas I don't even remember hearing his name before),

but I clicked on a link in Joan Walsh's post about him... and wow! I had something else I really needed to be doing, but I couldn't stop until I reached the end.

You have probably already read it, but if not:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20Carr-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=aut&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000

My dad died of lung cancer and he hadn't smoked for 20 years.

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14. Wow, that is riveting thank you.

"Here is what I deserved: hepatitis C, federal prison time, H.I.V., a cold park bench, an early, addled death."

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18. Wow

I'm going to read that again

Thanks

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13. If not lung cancer perhaps simply a heart attack

all of those things would have contributed to weakening his heart over the years. Condolences to his family - I read that he has a wife and 3 daughters.

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16. I tried a little bit of googling to see if they were younger or older

But didn't see anything definitive.

Just sad...

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17. Well he was certainly way too young

but I do think the twins are grown now (they were with his girlfriend when he was still using). Apparently he was able to give up most of the vices and moved on to give his twins a good life (then married and had another daughter). I'm glad he was able to do that for himself and the girls. It is really hard to fight addiction.