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Shane Smith:
I'm a regular guy and I go to these places and I go, "OK, Everyone talked to me about cannibalism, right? Everyone talked about cannibalism." Now I'm getting a lot of shit for talking about cannibalism. Whatever. Everyone talked to me about cannibalism! That's fucking crazy! So the actual... our audience goes, 'That's fucking insane, like, that's nuts!' The New York Times, meanwhile, is writing about surfing, and I'm sitting there going like, 'You know what? I'm not going to talk about surfing, I'm going to talk about cannibalism, because that fucks me up.' David Carr:
Just a sec. Time out. Before you ever went there, we've had reporters there reporting on genocide after genocide. Just because you put on a fucking safari helmet and looked at some poop doesn't give you the right to insult what we do. So, continue
I'm a regular guy and I go to these places and I go, "OK, Everyone talked to me about cannibalism, right? Everyone talked about cannibalism." Now I'm getting a lot of shit for talking about cannibalism. Whatever. Everyone talked to me about cannibalism! That's fucking crazy! So the actual... our audience goes, 'That's fucking insane, like, that's nuts!' The New York Times, meanwhile, is writing about surfing, and I'm sitting there going like, 'You know what? I'm not going to talk about surfing, I'm going to talk about cannibalism, because that fucks me up.' David Carr:
Just a sec. Time out. Before you ever went there, we've had reporters there reporting on genocide after genocide. Just because you put on a fucking safari helmet and looked at some poop doesn't give you the right to insult what we do. So, continue
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I'm a regular guy
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and I go to these places and I go
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Okay everyone talked to me about cannibalism right
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Everyone talked to me about cannibalism Now I'm getting
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a lot of shit for saying the word cannibalism and stuff whatever
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Everyone talked to me about cannibalism
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So you'd kill the child Yes
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And then drink the blood Yeah
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That's fucking crazy So the actual our audience goes
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That's fucking insane Like that's nuts
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And The New York Times meanwhile is writing about surfing
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I'm sitting there going You know what I'm not going to talk about surfing
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I'm going to talk about cannibalism because that fucks me up
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Just a sec Time out
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Before you ever went there
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we've had reporters there
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reporting on genocide after genocide
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And just because you put on a fuckin' safari helmet
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and went and looked at some poop doesn't give you
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the right to insult what we do
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So continue continue Sorry
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Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity.
