★½ The Paper

[Twinkletoes: 1.5]

This is a documentary about a year in the life of the staff of Penn State’s student newspaper. I hated it. I found the staff of the newspaper to be unlikable, self absorbed and often grossly incompetent. I found most of the major crises that took place during the year to be laughable and uninteresting. Worst of all I found the work of the filmmaker to amateurish. Either these reporters have the fastest growing hair in the world, or the constantly changing lenghths of their hair is indicative of some bad editing choices which made the influence of the filmmaker upon his documentary distractingly noticeable.