Rip David Carr New York Times Media Columnist And Former City Paper Editor

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• A photo of David Carr taken yesterday evening

Earlier in his career, David Carr, the New York Times media columnist who died suddenly Thursday, was editor of Washington’s City Paper, an alt-weekly owned by the Reader. At the time, CNN’s Jake Tapper was a writer there. Tom Yoder, the Reader owner who oversaw Washington remembers:

“After Mr. Michaels arrived, according to two people at the bar that night,” wrote Carr, “he sat down and said, ‘watch this,’ and offered the waitress $100 to show him her breasts. The group sat dumbfounded.”