The Times’ peripatetic media critic weighs in with a classic “do I have to write this it’s the holidays” column today—his second in a row—looking at media figures who are facing challenges in 2015. Carr’s list of usual suspects includes Deborah Turness of NBC News, Joe Ripp of Time Inc., and MSNBC president Phil Griffin. This will not be news to anyone who reads a media column. David Carr’s media column, for example.

I grant you: There’s not a lot of media news between Christmas and New Year’s, and Carr can write this sort of thing as entertainingly as anyone.

But still—this is the kind of column that Carr could write in his sleep, and we could read in ours, and neither party would be any worse for it.

And notice, again, as I have pointed out about Carr’s work previously, the utter lack of reporting….