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“That probably is the worst decision that I have made in doing press” for the “Page One” movie, says David Carr. “My wife was just appalled by it, as am I. …If there is one image out on the Web, and there are some bad ones, that I could remove, I would remove that one.” The hat he wore for the photo shoot “adds to the kind of dickish factor.” Tom McGeveran writes:
If Carr has become a broker of the Times’ image and its relationship with the rest of the media, he is an unusual one. He has neither the sententiousness that has usually characterized the paper’s top brass who speak for the paper, nor quite the rashness of its youngest reporters, the ones who are still internally referred to as “Times material,” still in formation. Carr is not “Times material,” as he tells [Aaron] Sorkin; it’s a part of his shtick and his story that he’s there by a sort of chain of accidents, and how could he possibly complain, and what would he ever do to jeopardize that?
In today’s Times, Michael Kinsley says in his “Page One” review that the paper “deserves a better movie, and so do you.” (Kinsley has one thing wrong, says Gary Weiss.) || NPR’s Bob Mondello calls the documentary “a portrait of an institution at a moment of transition, when Page 1 space still qualifies as precious real estate, and the question of whether it’ll hang on to that value is — at least for old-school journalists — disconcertingly up in the air.” (NPR’s “Morning Edition” covered the film, too.) || Jeff Bercovici writes about his cameo appearance in the movie.
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