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"I'm a pretty outspoken princess, right?" recalled Carrie Fisher at her The New York Times' panel yesterday. "But you take off my clothes, you slam a metal bikini on me, and suddenly I don't know what to say. I'm mute." More »
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Though Katie Couric has been dogged by bad press since she took the CBS Evening News anchor job two years ago, things started to look up for Couric during the conventions. According to Times media critic/junkie memoirst David Carr, "this campaign has moved into Ms. Couric’s wheelhouse." Couric says, “This is a great story for everyone, clearly but with the candidacy of Hillary Clinton and the emergence of Governor Palin, it is also worthwhile to have a female perspective on the news as well…You’d like the gender issues to fall away, just as you hope that at some point the race thing will fade. The road to gender equality really starts when the novelty wears off. And I think my presence anchoring a nightly newscast is much less jarring than it might have been initially." [NY Times] More »
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It is way-back week on Crappy Hour, when my first Crappy Love, Moe Tkacik, agrees to relive our original blogospheric passion for a full five days! Today's edition — for which we decided to stay up late, get drunk, and parse the headlines rather than get up early and hungover — includes my embarrassing encounter with David Gregory, the origins of human life, the First Dude, rumors, Karl Rove, Sarah Palin, David Broder, laughable Safire-ian stupidity, teabagging and the comparison between Governor Palin's leaky vagina and my own. Yeah, this is what sort of happens when Moe and I drink together. More »
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New York Times columnist David Carr has led a life that involved significant deviations from the beaten path, as chronicled in his new book The Night of the Gun. In it, he writes about his descent into serious addiction, poverty, rehab and eventual redemption as the full custodial parent of his twin girls, decent husband, New York Times columnist, etc., etc. One thing the extensively documented book touches on, but that he admits he and his editors cut short, was Carr's misogynistic behavior. Carr beat his girlfriend, he beat the mother of his children, and, by his own admission, he used and abused women "pathologically." But, in the end, while his mistreatment of his infant daughters, his own body and his family are extensively chronicled without embarrassment, Carr's redemption story leaves out plenty of his behavior toward women in that period of his life. More »
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