Sidney Blumenthal (Wikipedia) When David Carr of the New York Times died, shockingly, a few months ago, the journalistic world showed its collective grief. Understandably so: David Carr, whom I knew and very much liked, was an enormously big-hearted man, who confessed rather than concealed his many flaws (starting with years as a drug addict) and became the fallible and therefore more compelling conscience and inspiration of our business.