Page One: Inside The New York Times

Journalism is the Face of News
Throughout this film, Page One: Inside the New York Times, we notice there is a constant theme. How has news evolved? The New York Times is used as an example throughout the documentary to show us how news has evolved, what some of the challenges may be, what values come in to play, what goes through the decision-making process, what problems may come about while rising to success, and what changes might happen to journalism in the future. Journalism is the face of our news today in the society; if we did not have them, we would not have news. Looking back, newspapers were at the height everything. It was how we, as audience, got news from all over the world. Continuously, he New York Times delivered papers to the white house, and they even delivered papers around the world to other countries to get …show more content…
There was a time when the New York Times stock was low and not many people believed in them as a company, and they had to lay people off; however, they rose above and beyond to make their paper the way it is today. For example, one of the struggles they went through was credibility. They had two journalists by the names of Judith Miller and Jason Blair that ruined their trust with the public. Judith Miller was an unreliable reporter because she lied about some of the reports she made. Thankfully, she took complete responsibility, but the New York Times suffered from her discrepancies. Consequently, it is the same with Jason Blair. He lied about his whereabouts when writing certain columns and plagiarized almost all of his material. Again, it reflects poorly on the New York Times because they had hired the man and published the story. As a result of this, the New York Times ratings went down for a bit because people were questioning their integrity as a newspaper overall because of these two bad judgment calls for