Shane Smith Also Dropped a David Carr Reference

Vice co-founder is ready to put on his safari hat and take on anyone who compares Viceland to Current.

On The Drudge Report and elsewhere, much is being made today about the fact that Shane Smith drops 52 F-bombs in this week’s Hollywood Reporter cover story, for which he was interviewed alongside Spike Jonze by Lacey Rose at Vice’s Venice, Calif. offices.

But we were equally intrigued by the fact that Smith reverently made mention of David Carr:

There are plenty who are predicting this network [Viceland] will be a replay of Al Gore’s Current TV, which had lots of hype, then fell flat.

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