Usually, we find David Carr's whole Bagger I'm-talking-about-myself-in-the-third-person thing kind of annoying -- as opposed to, say, the diverting use of "we" by the Nytpicker -- but we actually really enjoyed this:Why So Serious, Oscar?
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Usually, we find David Carr's whole Bagger I'm-talking-about-myself-in-the-third-person thing kind of annoying -- as opposed to, say, the diverting use of "we" by the Nytpicker -- but we actually really enjoyed this:
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this guy is truly strange. how does he even keep his job?
I like him as a writer, but the voice he uses on that blog is just too odd for me. If there are enough readers, I suppose it makes sense to keep him around. Just make sure that none of the writers pick up the trend:
Maureen Dowd calls herself "The Dowdy"
Paul Krugman calls himself "Krug-o-matic"
John Schwartz calls himself "The Schwartz-Kopf"
Adam Liptak calls himself "The Lip-Schtick"
Gretchen Morgenson calls herself "The Gretch Kvetcher"
OMG, stop me now. Put all of these ideas back in Pandora's box.
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