PENNSYLVANIA
The Morning Call
Bill White
It’s rare to see a movie in which reporters and their work are depicted in a realistic way.
The most notable exception was “All the President’s Men,” although most of us don’t look like Robert Redford. It offered a nice feel for a real newsroom and the kind of dogged digging that produces great stories
The results were so momentous and the movie’s portrayal of those events so compelling that they inspired a generation of journalists, not just to become reporters but to more vigorously embrace the role of a diligent press in a free society. I know I found it exhilarating.
To that short list of uplifting but realistic depictions of journalists, we now can add “Spotlight,” the Oscar Best Picture contender that dramatizes the Boston Globe investigation that exposed the horrible depth of child sexual abuse by Boston area priests and the massive cover-up perpetrated by Boston’s religious, legal and government establishment.
It’s a great movie, and it’s been gaining momentum throughout this awards season. But I had a special interest in it even before I knew how well it told this story.
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