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If you know a journalist, he or she might be a little bit down today. [And not just those of us who are also 58 years old.]

Here's why:

— New York Times media columnist David Carr dies at age 58 — Associated Press / sltrib.com

"NEW YORK • Media columnist David Carr, who wrote the Media Equation column for The New York Times and penned a memoir about his fight with drug addiction, collapsed at his office and died on Thursday. He was 58. ..."

— David Carr, Times Critic and Champion of Media, Dies at 58 — The New York Times

"David Carr, who wriggled away from the demon of drug addiction to become an unlikely name-brand media columnist at The New York Times and the star of a documentary about the newspaper, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 58. ..."

— David Carr, a Journalist at the Center of the Sweet Spot — A.O. Scott | The New York Times

" ... He managed to see the complexities of digital-age journalism from every angle, and to write about it with unparalleled clarity and wit. His prose was a marvel of wry Midwestern plainness, sprinkled with phrases his colleagues will only ever think of as Carrisms. Something essential was 'baked in.' Someone was always competing to be the tallest leprechaun. ..."

— The Quotable David Carr — The New York Times

On Journalism: "If you're gonna get a job that's a little bit of a caper, that isn't really a job, that under ideal circumstances you get to at least leave the building and leave your desktop, go out, find people more interesting than you, learn about something, come back and tell other people about it — that should be hard to get into. That should be hard to do. No wonder everybody's lined up, trying to get into it. It beats working."

— New York Times media columnist David Carr has died — Ezra Klein | Vox

" ... I don't know how to explain exactly who Carr is, or why so many who loved and admired him are so upset tonight. So I'll let him explain himself. This is the bio he gave to students of his Boston University course:

" 'Your professor is a terrible singer and a decent dancer. He is a movie crier but stone-faced in real life. He never laughs even when he is actually amused. He hates suck-ups, people who treat waitresses and cab drivers poorly, and anybody who thinks diversity is just an academic conceit. He is a big sucker for the hard worker and is rarely dazzled by brilliance. He has little patience for people who pretend to ask questions when all they really want to do is make a speech.'..."

— David Carr Was an Optimist About Journalism's Future — By Will Oremus | Slate

" ... That was Carr: crusty on the outside, but deeply sympathetic at his core. He was never one of those nostalgists who lamented the decline of some journalistic halcyon age. A brilliant, flawed man who had lived through a hell of his own making, Carr didn't let the sins of others obscure their virtues. And he was convinced that the news itself had a future as brilliant, and as flawed, as its past."

— The Media Equation | A column from David Carr focused on the intersection of media and technology.