Opening in limited release Friday, Page One: Inside the New York Times spotlight’s the inner workings on one of media’s most respected institutions, mainly seen from the eyes of its dedicated journalists.

The documentary’s main “star” is David Carr, a gritty, colorful, and painfully frank journalist and former drug addict who doesn’t suffer fools.

Carr was unsure if director Andrew Rossi could develop a documentary about the struggles facing print journalism, even if its setting was at The New York Times.  ”I was not convinced that there was a film there…(newsrooms are) really boring places, they’re full of pasty faced white people,” says Carr. “Really long, drawn out discussions and phone calls that don’t work out.  I just thought ‘Where is the movie in this?’  I really didn’t know until I saw the movie that somewhere in there things had happened.  He didn’t just make a good documentary, I think it’s a real movie.”

Click on the media bar and listen to Carr talk about why he had reservations about being filmed in the documentary.

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posted by Greg Srisavasdi