Review of Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011) by Amilcar A — 15 Jul 2011

I a world where anything qualifies as news or information, you still have the venerable NYT. It might not be perfect, it can be filled with scandals and often inaccurate but it remains the best and most credible source of investigative journalism.

While most contemporary news sources are either aggregation sites, political think tanks or tabloids, the NYT continues to provide excellent journalism with the best reporters in the country.

It employs hundreds of people across the world and drives towards the most comprehensive story telling. It's no surprise it's still considered the paper of record.

The challenge the times faces, much like all traditional media sources is they face competition from all over. Ad revenues are down, blogs and tweets are free and unless you have a spin, you won't have a captive audience.

The key to this great documentary is that institutions like the NYT need to exist. There is no way to have a viable democracy without unbiased largely unaltered information.

In the days of Fox, Cato, Heritage and the Daily Kos the NYT is more critical than ever. It's not supposed to be a monolith but would be critically damaged if lost or noticeably reduced.