It's no The Front Page, but here are the similarities:  Men swagger, women cry.  And things are changing.

I love news and newsrooms and still get misty eyed watching the morning paper roll off the presses late at night. So Page One was a nice fly-on-the-wall look inside the hallowed halls of The New York Times during the 14 months it was filmed. The building is magnificent, but the scramble to make sense of stories and get them in the paper is the same as any newsroom I've been in. 

And it was all about getting stories in the paper.  There was one moment when Andrew Ross Sorkin ordered a story not be put "on the web" yet because he had to confirm something. Other than theoretical discussions about paywalls and blogging, that was it. We saw nothing else about the amazing work we know is being done inside The New York times by digital journalists. 

Director Andrew Rossi says the movie examines the ongoing crisis in journalism from inside the newsroom.  Uhm, nah.  It doesn't do that.  At least not any better than a 20-minute scan of my Twitter feed might.  

It would have been smart for Rossi to take 5 or 10 minutes away from David Carr's time (oh and he would have plenty left) to show us how Aron Pilhofer and his team get the news out. Pilhofer is editor of Interactive News at The New York Times and what his team is doing is the future of journalism Rossi was trying to explore.

In one telling scene a group of men, drinking beers in a bar, asked Tim Arango about his new assignment in Iraq. How was he going to begin? What had the editors advised? No real advice, he told them, except to go and fit into the well-oiled machine that's been working for 7 years. It sounded a little like just do what we've done before. Yes, it's war, but you'll figure it out.  

I could go on. There are some touching scenes during layoffs and David Carr truly has some funny moments.  He is an odd pitchman for such a lofty organization, but he is sent out to tackle criticisms from some rather goofy opponents.  Then executive editor Bill Keller (straight out of central casting) takes the tough questions.  

If you love newsrooms, go see it.  But then go home and watch The Front Page.