The link below will take you to the Official Page One – Inside the New York Times Website. Here there is a short description of the documentary and lists of characters and producers.
Lisa Schwarzbaum of the US Entertainment Weekly described the movie watching experience as “similar to the thrill of glimpsing the man behind the curtain of the great and powerful Oz." I have to agree with this comment, the film was insightful and entertaining – the appearance of David Carr made certain of this.
Although all characters were certainly held their own, Carr’s sometimes disturbing honest, knowledgeable and opinionated, yet sarcastic and for lack of a better term “bad assed”, attitude stole the show.
As an educational documentary, the film was fascinating. The conclusion reached: that journalism is not dying, simply changing. The employment of Brian Stelter, scouted from his blog, evidences this.
However, although Carr and his associates stated that The New York Times would never go under, it is difficult to ignore the fact that a lot of newspapers have recently. Although it is unlikely that such a prestigious newspaper would collapse, a lack of funding may cause some decrease in the quality of the investigations. However, there is no evidence that this is imminent for the Times.
In all, this film was superb. It was a great review of all the course themes we have studied this semester.
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