Chris Hedges: The Myth of The New York Times, in Documentary Form

``The motion picture's focus on Carr and the media desk, one of the smaller and less important departments in the paper, means that the most important sections in The New York Times are ignored, including Foreign, National and Business. The Business section, which never appears in the film, is one of the largest in the nation. Its editors and reporters, however, completely missed the looming financial meltdown. If the paper's reporters had spent time in poor neighborhoods where subprime mortgages were being peddled to people who could never repay them, they would have understood and been able to explain to readers the tottering financial system. But poor people rarely get a voice in the Times. Instead, the paper's business reporters busied themselves with interviews with the elite and powerful on Wall Street or the latest financial "news," much of it manufactured by public relations firms.''