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David Carr's Thing For Mr. Potato Head
July 7, 2008
NY Times media writer David Carr did a helluva job describing his dealings with the PR people at Fox News today, showing how Fox goes into frantic full-court press mode to dissuade a reporter from writing anything vaguely unflattering about Fox News, and how the Fox PR people treat--or ignore--that reporter once the story is published.
He writes:
Once the public relations apparatus at Fox News is engaged, there will be the calls to my editors, keening (and sometimes threatening) e-mail messages, and my requests for interviews will quickly turn into depositions about my intent or who else I am talking to.
My only issue with Carr's column was his self-description as he writes about Times colleague Jacques Steinberg having his photo altered on a Fox News program. He writes:
I have a bit of an advantage in that my laundry is already hanging on the line, not to mention that with a face made out of potatoes...
It's a funny metaphor, but unfortunately one Carr used three weeks ago to eulogize Tim Russert:
He had a face that seemed to be carved out of potatoes...
It's, er, small potatoes, and the spud redux doesn't take away from a terrific column.
Posted by Mike Malone on July 7, 2008 | Comments (1)
