Fallen Radio Star Craig Carton Gets a Second Chance in New HBO Doc Wild Card

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For the new film Wild Card, directors Martin Dunn and Marie McGovern tried to explain Craig Carton’s downfall—and where he goes next

on Twitter, “Same guy who was calling me a thug on some lame radio station was running a Ponzi scheme?? Funny how life works, can’t believe these fools!”“I think it’s absolutely human nature that if somebody is number one and keeps telling you that they’re number one and rubbing it in that they’re number one, that when you suddenly are no longer number one and not even on air, people are going to revel in your downfall,” Dunn said.

Even now, with the film coming out, Carton has been criticized. “Craig Carton obviously still doesn’t get it,” read theWild Card. “This is a human-interest story of somebody who’d worked for 30 years to get to the top of their profession, and successfully done that, and blew it all up because of their own mistakes,” he said. “And Craig is also very aware of the fact that gambling is an illness, and he’s very aware of the fact that other people may suffer the sort of issues that he’s suffered.”

“I have to be upfront with who I am and I have to do that 24/7. That can never take a day off,” Carton told the filmmakers. “The pledge I made to the people who did stay with me through prison is that I’ll do that. They deserve me to be straight with them, honest with them. And if I ever go back on the pledge, I don’t deserve for those people to be there for me.”

 

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A puff piece . A commerce for Carton

Excellent documentary

The NewYorker article was a better chronicle - the documentary was a redemption piece (which fell very short).

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