Page One: Inside the New York Times
Andrew Rossi
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Plot Summary
PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES deftly gains unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as the main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, PAGE ONE chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil. It gives us an up-close look at the vibrant cross-cubicle debates and collaborations, tenacious jockeying for on-the-record quotes, and skillful page-one pitching that produce the “daily miracle” of a great news organization. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of journalists continuing to produce extraordinary work under increasingly difficult circumstances. At the heart of the film is the burning question on the minds of everyone who cares about a rigorous American press, Times lover or not: what will happen if the fast-moving future of media leaves behind the fact-based, original reporting that helps to define our society?
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Movie Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
TOMATOMETER
80%- Reviews Counted: 99
- Fresh: 79
- Rotten: 20
- Average Rating: 6.8/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: By treating the Times as a valuable relic rather than an adaptive organism, Rossi does his subject a disservice.
Fresh: For what it's worth, it's an accurate portrait.
Fresh: The pure process of teasing out a story and getting it into accurately reported shape is fascinating to watch and more collaborative than you would expect.
Fresh: The movie is a clear-eyed and engrossing look at an important subject.
Customer Reviews
Wow! Surprisingly good. Most compulsively watchable documentary.
What a knock out!
A must see. Grabs your attention from the beginning. Outstanding. It's a film with very real implications and relevant questions for our time. But it is also put forth as a very interesting story with wonderful, truly likable people. Even the ones I didnt
Iike were fascinating.
So much better than anything I've seen lately in documentaries. So different from what I expected.
You will not be sorry whether you buy or rent this!
(btw I am 30 and I don't read newspapers. This is something younger people should see. I and many younger people i know or follow in blogs take the availability of news for granted. We seem to believe we are entitled to free news, free music, etc. There are consequences. We pay for what we get.)
Empty Homage
This documentary is little more than a prayer for the dying. Just as the printing press revolutionized book publishing the internet will revolutionize the news business. This documentary does little to convey just where The New York Times will fit into this new paradigm if at all.
Good
The documentary is a fair overview on this remarkable Newspaper. It is gives you the sense of the importance of the work that investigative journalism is. The only thing that bothered me was the fact that so few women were interviewed and from that apperace it looked as very few women work at the Times?
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