UNITED STATES
Democrat-Gazette
By John Brummett
Posted: December 6, 2015
You should get out and see the Oscar-buzzed movie called Spotlight.
It dramatizes in realistic tones and with credible characters the finest in newspaper reporting, which is usually tedious, often resented, sadly fading and sometimes heroic.
After you’ve seen the movie, consider renewing your newspaper subscription.
Do that regardless of whether you can abide the editorials and columnists. Those can be taken or left. Investigative reporting can change the world.
Invest a few dollars in your community and in a principle.
I refer to the principle of hardworking and obsessively passionate and curious people who sometimes can be societal misfits–they’re called newspaper reporters–and who toil night and day for modest pay in a limping industry to ask in your behalf the things you can’t or won’t.
I refer to the age-old principle of a newspaper daring to pursue truth to afflict the comfortable, like the Catholic Church in an overpoweringly Catholic town like Boston, and comfort the afflicted, like the hundreds of priest-abused children in and around Boston.
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