Page One: Inside the New York Times

[Old and In the Way]

This is a really good documentary on the state of traditional news media in the age of internet information. It covers a lot of ground and history...Watergate to Wikileaks. The picture is grim...ad revenues are tanking and people don't want to pay for information that they can find elsewhere on the net. But the question unresolved is who pays for the hard work of investigative journalism? Is there a future for institutional news?

[Graybeard]

1. And David Carr is one tough cookie.

The doc follows Carr as he investigates and reports several stories. I like how he refused to allow any of the newbies in the internet jungle of "news" agencies to bad-mouth The Old Gray Lady.

[Old and In the Way]

2. I was impressed with Carr as well. He certainly doesn't fit your image as a NYT reporter.

His blunt honesty in the film was quite refreshing...the phone scene with his reporting on the Chicago Tribune sex harassment with the Trib lawyers showed him to be one tough cookie who wouldn't baack down on the facts. The Judy Miller segment was eye-opening as well....obviously the antithesis of Carr's work ethic.