Director Andrew Rossi takes a look at the changing face of newspaper publishing through the prism of one the world's most highly respected newspapers.
It is no big secret that people are not reading newspapers as much as they do anymore. With social networking and the Internet people can get their news at a much faster rate than newspapers can publish. They are still worthwhile for exposing larger stories about on going problems but quick news they can't compete with the Internet. As a result there are a lot of newspaper publishing companies that are going bankrupt. Admittedly these are usually smaller papers in smaller cities but it is still sad. Many of the issues explored here were touched on in the film 'State Of Play' but it is still interesting to see how a newspaper works. It explores recent events like Wikileaks and how The New York Times was one of the few newspapers that information was released to. There is also a look at events from the Iraq War. This incident also puts into perspective an interesting occurrence. How newspapers have more time to check their facts but TV and Internet must rush to get their information out and so can sometimes get their information wrong. Newspapers also have more interesting characters like David Carr. Old style journalists who like to really investigate a story and get all the information right. I also found it interesting how the ipad is bringing back the newspaper but in a digital form. Maybe all this new technology will help save the planet because we will be cutting down less trees for paper for newspapers and books.
A fascinating look at the way we receive our information about the world around us. It is disappointing that newspapers are less popular but hopefully journalists will at least try to get the information correct when publishing stories.
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