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My first job, the one I’d always dreamed of, was at The New York Times. But my dream didn’t survive the Times’ 1970s newsroom. Here were row upon row of gray, smoking, middle-aged men, bent, slumped, sweaty, full of dandruff, many with tremors and tics, old before their time. It was a visual wasteland. Life—or at least the will to dress for it—had mysteriously left the place. I was 20 years old and this was a bleak future. I escaped as fast as possible (disappointing my father—many Times careers are driven by proud fathers).
These same people, still mostly men, still smoking, and still aggressively unattractive, are back in the documentary, Page One: Inside The New York Times, except this isn’t the 1970s. It’s today’s newsroom.
Page One is an agonizing film to watch, 90 minutes of visual deprivation. It could be the least glamorous film ever made.
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Michael Wolff in Adweek][*]
[*] He also didn't like the way he was portrayed in the movie, and calls the film's central figure, Times media writer David Carr, "a former drug addict whose life was transformed by his job at the Times" and "the Snooki of journalism."
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