“Brian Stelter, author of the NYT blog, The Media Decoder, “was having a really emotional experience watching it,” says Rossi. “He was immediately struck by the visceral nature of the video.” Meanwhile, the editor of the media desk, Bruce Headlam “was engaged in this debate about The New York Times and NBC becoming irrelevant in the conversation by [WikiLeaks] going right to YouTube.” Initially it seemed that Michael Hirschorn’s vision of “End Times” might have some merit.  Rossi didn’t know that three months later, The New York Times would get access to logs from WikiLeaks and “make it a three-act play.” The film reveals how the fabled newspaper triumphs with WikiLeaks, echoing the bold risk-taking it had done previously with The Pentagon Papers. It also follows David Carr, a salty survivor of personal failings who acts as the breakfront for the “hurricane” of new media trendsetters, holding them at bay with quick and clever bon mots to show just where casual news production would be without the reporting of the Times. “Page One: The Inside Story of the New York Times” opens in theaters later this week.