Carpetbagger defends Grey Lady

David Carr of the New York Times talks to Aaron Sorkin about addiction, movies, and journalism the old-fashioned way. Note to self: Read Carr's Night of the Gun. (Interview)

SORKIN: I don’t want to dwell on that, but it’s worth mentioning because it’s an uncommon route that you took to the Times. How much time do you have now?

CARR: I’m five years sober. I had 13 years, and that was off of being sort of poly-addicted. I was a low-bottom crackhead, sobered up for 13 years, and then decided to try to be a nice, suburban alcoholic and see how that would go. That lasted . . . Well, it ended in handcuffs, so it didn’t go great. But I have about five-and-a-half years back now.