It’s Hard Out Here for a Vanity Fair Editor
20th March 2012
Matt Welch looks at Graydon Carter, Voice of the Crust.
You just know Carter is going to work himself up into a righteous hatred of his own class without once examining his own culpability; the only question is how he’ll get there:
One of the most amusing things about the Lame-Stream Media is the amount of time they spend criticizing the sort of people that they either are or aspire to be. I should have such a job.
Graydon Carter got rich making journalism and parties about other rich people who make movies and music and architecture and journalism. No harm in that! But can we stop, at long last, pretending that these and only these pursuits are the acceptable pathways to the One Percent Club? Or that only “hedge-fund tyros” (and–shudder–businessmen) are motivated by greed?
The whole point of a Crust is that it is rigid, flaky, and just an extraneous layer on the outside of what’s really worthwhile. You can have the filling and no Crust and be pretty well off, but if you’ve got Crust and no filling, all you’re left with is a whole lot of empty.