Today we learn that New York Times columnist David Carr had a drug problem, wrote a book about it, and is getting a $300,000 Simon & Schuster book deal for it. Not that it really seems like a huge chunk of change compared to the price of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, but, we guess it's a pretty good deal for a journalist.
Oh, and speaking of journalists, did you all know that the act of reporting was supposed to be non-fictional?
"We're thrilled to have a chance to publish a book from one of the finest non-fiction journalists of our time," David Rosenthal, publisher of industry giant Simon & Schuster said.
Carr was the editor of Washington City Paper, worked at the defunct Powerful Media and was a contributor to Atlantic Monthly when he was hired by Howell Raines as a media reporter at the New York Times.
Well, at least Jayson Blair continues to hold on to his "finest fiction journalists of our time" title.
Media Ink [Keith Kelly, New York Post]
Editorial Director
You have to give him credit–journalism is so hard when you don't make it up!
[...] clear up the matter with an explanation everybody can understand: $300,000, and Hollywood dreams. He wrote the book, he says, to help pay for his daughters' college [...]