New in Theaters:
Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
There’s an old joke which says that the second title to roll off Gutenberg’s printing press after the bible was a book on the death of the publishing industry. Whatever the media, predictions have been made about its demise nearly ever since its inception. This drumbeat of doom has been particularly thunderous during the past couple years when it comes to print newspapers, with their ad revenue ravaged by digital competitors and a readership depleted by Twitterized 21st-century information overload. Not long after an infamous January 2009 feature ran in the Atlantic asking whether the New York Times could be out of business by that May, director Andrew Ross embedded himself at the Old Gray Lady herself to watch the storm play out…
Page One is playing now in limited release, make sure to check it out. You can read the full review at filmcritic.com.
