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REMEMBERING THE OLD DAYS: Gay Talese: New York Times Was Drunker Than Mad Men. In a new video fr?

By Glenn Reynolds

REMEMBERING THE OLD DAYS: Gay Talese: New York Times Was Drunker Than Mad Men.

In a new video from Big Think, aptly titled ?Getting Drunk at The New York Times,? Talese acknowledges that the old stereotype is true: many great writers were also very heavy drinkers. There was ?a celebration of alcoholism almost within the creative arts, even in journalism,? he explains in the clip. The spirited old-timer goes on to describe his first time in the City Room at the Times, and watching a man ?whose head fell on his typewriter? from a few too many midday trips to the cabinet. . . . That show Mad Men, Talese says, was nothing: ?The drinking that went on in journalism was beyond that.?

I’d say find out what they were drinking, and send some to the Times’ current staff . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 30, 2009 (boomark / email).