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NYT writer David Carr exposes self in memoir, The Night of the Gun

Hang around journalism long enough, and you're bound to run across a merciless editor more than willing to send you out to seek the Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of some desperate and depraved human tragedy. But it's unlikely even the most fiendish newsroom sadist would ever dare to assign what New York Times columnist David Carr has ruth- lessly imposed upon himself. Carr, in what has to be acknowl- edged as a brilliant stroke of innovative memoir, voluntarily assumed the task of gathering the dirt on one of the most de- spicable, lowlife jour- nalists to …