{"id":399,"date":"2015-02-20T14:38:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2015-02-21T05:19:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T05:19:02","slug":"ta-nehisi-coates-about-david-carr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Ta-Nehisi Coates about David Carr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screenshot-2015-02-20-09.22.49.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-400\" src=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screenshot-2015-02-20-09.22.49.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2015-02-20 09.22.49\" width=\"188\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a>David Carr, who died last week, was a writer about media at the New York Times in recent years, which is a highly visible beat, but before that he had a colorful life as a journalist and editor and knucklehead and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1416541535\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1416541535&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=booknoisenet-20&amp;linkId=YSQSHF4J3IXBUPJE\">fuckup<\/a>. Ta-Nehisi Coates met Carr when Coates was a knucklehead and Carr was an editor, an editor who hired him and who made a profound difference in the young man&#8217;s life. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/02\/king-david\/385596\/\">In this tribute Coates explains why<\/a>, and also explains something deep and abiding about growing up and becoming a writer, explains the power of David Carr&#8217;s vision of journalism and reporting, and gives the George Polk award he won this week for his powerful \u00a0reported story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/features\/archive\/2014\/05\/the-case-for-reparations\/361631\/\">The Case For Reparations<\/a>, to Carr in honor of all his former editor taught and gave him. Beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Carr, who died last week, was a writer about media at the New York Times in recent years, which is a highly visible beat, but before that he had a colorful life as a journalist and editor and knucklehead and fuckup. Ta-Nehisi Coates met Carr when Coates was a knucklehead and Carr was an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ta-Nehisi Coates about David Carr<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,9,20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-journalism","category-link","category-memoir","category-obit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}