PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES
USA, 2011 (88 min.) DOC
Dir. Andrew Rossi
DON'T MISS!
Seriously. Do not miss this documentary about an old, old, so very old media property that, no matter how new media you think you are, still is more essential to American life than your Twitter feed or Facebook page or super important blog. And no, I am not being condescending toward your Twitter feed or Facebook page or super important blog. I am just saying that after you watch all the labor and money and guts and dedication and sick levels of professionalism that go into producing a year's worth of the New York Times, you will understand why it cannot be replaced by even 10,000,000 of your most informative status updates. You will also fall in love (perhaps all over again) with David Carr, the showstealing Times media reporter who has beaten crack addiction and more in order to lurch into battle against those who see no consequence to the very possible, internet-instigated demise of the Paper of Record. (Not too long ago, one share of New York Times stock cost less than one copy of the Sunday edition.) At one point in the film, Carr declares he is going to "vaporize" these Timesdemise- cheering idiots, and he does, delightfully. Also delightful: The lack of imperiousness inside what is supposedly the most imperious of all media lairs. What you see is a bunch of super smart people just fucking grateful to still have a job, and doing it balls out until someone tells them to go home. (ELI SANDERS)
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