David Carr...defending the honor of the New York Times in "Page One"
“PAGE ONE” My rating: B (Opens July 22 at the Glenwood Arts)
88 minutes: MPAA rating: R
The recent woes of print journalism are front and center in “Page One,” a documentary for which director Alex Rossi spent a year observing the inner workings of our greatest newspaper, The New York Times.
Although it remains America’s most successful daily, the old gray lady nevertheless is struggling to stay economically viable in an era when the internet and other free sources of news have cut badly into both her advertising revenue and her once-exclusive position as the ultimate source of information on current events.
And if things are bad for the unassailable Times, imagine what it’s like for other papers.
(I personally could tell you a few tales of woe…but, no, that’s for another day.) (more…)
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