Inside the New York Times
I enjoy the heavy THUMP the Sunday edition makes as it lands on my doorstep. I love spreading it out across my kitchen table and sorting through it for the sections I read first arts, week in review and then the magazine. And like many readers, I recently traded the thump for a click.
Now, I poke, pinch and zoom through the digital edition. While it means fewer piles of paper fighting for space alongside my morning bagel, I admit that bytes can't quite replace the feeling of fresh newsprint. Still, with so many headlines like this, it seems the newspaper as we know it might be headed the way of the 8track.
If the medium is the message, then it appears that more and more of us prefer our news sliced and diced, often in convenient 140character chunks. Can the humble newspaper,
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Our guides into this paper of record are media reporters David Carr and Brian Stelter. Carr, a former crack addict who led what he describes as a "textured life," is the true star of the doc. He speaks with a beat poet's raspy staccato,
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The ying to Carr's yang is Stelter, a blogger boy wonder who was plucked from the web and given a desk job reporting for the Times. He's a contentcreation machine who flits from screen to screen, simultaneously hounding sources and typing up tweets.
For news junkies, the pleasures of Page One include watching Stelter and Carr work the phones and churn out copy. We're right there in the office of media editor Bruce Headlam as deadlines creep ever closer. Seeing the human element reporters arguing over word counts and story treatments is an effective reminder of the people behind the type.
Journalist David Carr is seen in Page One: Inside The New York Times. (Alliance Films)
The most intriguing character is definitely Carr, who film fans may recall from his previous stint as the Times Oscar correspondent The Carpetbagger. filter to the media desk. A newsman who came to the Times later in life, he demonstrates the passion of a convert.
One of the most entertaining moments in Page One comes when Carr has a runin with Shane Smith,
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But beneath the sniping lies a few key questions: What's the value of journalism in the age of Google News? Is there a nobility to newsprint or is it just nostalgia for a medium past its prime? Page One has its share of talking heads, who pontificate away. New media gurus like Clay Shirky and Jeff Jarvis survey the issue, while the emergence of Wikileaks muddies the waters.
In the end, Page One's alltoobrief glimpse of real reporting makes the best case for The Gray Lady. One feels a voyeuristic thrill hovering over Carr's shoulder as he works his sources, his telephone headset dangling around his scrawny neck like some talisman. As Page One winds down, he dives into the death spiral of another media giant, The Tribune Company. It's a sordid mess, with tales of crude executives and bullied board members. Slowly, over several weeks, Carr brings the picture into focus.
Under the threat of lawsuits, the Times publishes the story. The majestic music swelling as the paper hits the street is a bit rich, but when the headlines make the wires, heads roll a reminder that there's still a place in the world for reporters with ink under their fingernails, even if it's the digital kind.
RATING: Recommended for news aficionados, Page One is a revealing look at a big cog in the media machine. Threeandahalf newspaper boxes out of five.
Page One: Inside the New York Times opens in Toronto on Friday and select Canadian cities later this month.
Times news staff gather listen to executive editor Bill Keller in a scene from Page One: Inside The New York Times (Alliance Films)
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