UNITED STATES
PBS Newshour
[with video]
JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: one of the year’s most acclaimed movies and the journalism behind it.
Reporters frequently don’t come off well in the movies these days. But the new film opening in many cities this weekend is built around the investigative journalism that uncovered a major scandal in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.
The fallout of that report, in turn, triggered numerous other investigations and revelations in other archdioceses.
Jeffrey Brown has the story.
RACHEL MCADAMS, Actress: The numbers clearly indicate that there were senior clergy involved.
JEFFREY BROWN: It was one major institution, the hometown newspaper, taking on another, the Catholic Church.
LIEV SCHREIBER, Actor: We need to focus on the institution, not the individual priests. Practice and policy. Show me this was systemic, that it came from the top down.
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