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Clint Eastwood Atlanta bombing film criticised over 'sex-for-tips' reporter
The Guardian ^ | 21 November 2019 | Andrew Pulver

Posted on 11/24/2019 3:44:49 AM PST by Erik Latranyi

Clint Eastwood’s new film Richard Jewell has been criticised for its portrayal of one of the key journalists involved in reporting on the 1996 Atlanta bombing case on which the film is based.

Jewell was a security guard who discovered the bomb and led bystanders away; he was investigated by the FBI for several weeks but never charged. After two further bombings, Eric Robert Rudolph was identified as a suspect, and convicted in 2005. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution controversially named him three days later.

Kevin G Riley, editor in chief of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, said in a letter to the Wrap that the film’s suggestion that its reporter Kathy Scruggs traded sex for information from an FBI agent was not true, and that the film’s intention was to undermine confidence in the media and law enforcement agencies.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: eastwood; jewell; scruggs
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To: Erik Latranyi

Tits for tips...


41 posted on 11/24/2019 5:37:40 AM PST by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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To: bagster

Bump


42 posted on 11/24/2019 5:38:47 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: Erik Latranyi

Clint likely has better sources than most of fake media and the story is probably true.


43 posted on 11/24/2019 6:08:40 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: mad_as_he$$

“....and that the film’s intention was to undermine confidence in the media and law enforcement agencies.”

It would be my intention to revoke their FCC license -breach of trust.


44 posted on 11/24/2019 6:12:40 AM PST by Captain7seas (UN EXIT!)
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To: Brilliant

You can defame the useless, dishonest media. There needs to be journalistic reform in the worst way. Journalism died two decades ago, and there needs to be a new generation of honest reporters come forward (if there ever was such a thing).


45 posted on 11/24/2019 6:20:46 AM PST by richardtavor
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Very well put.


46 posted on 11/24/2019 6:42:14 AM PST by onona (Just tell me where to muster, I'll bring my shit)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Media whores don’t just screw the innocent. They do a pretty good job on themselves.


47 posted on 11/24/2019 6:51:07 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Erik Latranyi
"the film’s intention was to undermine confidence in the media"???

The media did this to itself a long time ago--and does so today!

Does anyone trust the media to be truthful??? Is TRUTH--TRUTH for its own sake--even a consideration to those in the media??? Does anyone expect anything from the media but propaganda???

48 posted on 11/24/2019 6:55:38 AM PST by Savage Beast ( The curse of high intelligence:having to watch the unintelligent try everything you know won't work)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Only media a-holes (redundant) would make themselves the victim in a Richard Jewell movie.


49 posted on 11/24/2019 6:57:45 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: ronnie raygun
Well said.

What's scary is that millions apparently accept as truth the groupthink narrative presented by the propaganda machine, viz. the media, like the dumb driven cattle we are warned to be not like.

50 posted on 11/24/2019 7:00:35 AM PST by Savage Beast ( The curse of high intelligence:having to watch the unintelligent try everything you know won't work)
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To: Erik Latranyi

A couple of years ago, two-time-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said something to the effect that the lesson of Orwell’s 1984 was to beware of those who undermine our faith in the authorities, the media, etc. She must have read a different book than I did, but it’s nice to see the Atlanta newspaper has the same point of view.


51 posted on 11/24/2019 7:04:38 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Lakeside Granny
"It was a terrible abuse of power and despicable what was done to Jewell, a true hero."

Of course it was.

Heroes are often abused.

Witness the abuse of the Great American Hero: President Donald Trump, risking and sacrificing everything (in his case a great deal) in order to save his beloved America from the clutches of those who would seize he and her vast wealth and power for their own personal advantages, and whose rallying cries are "Make America Great!" and "In God We Trust!"

And the media is as guilty as anything of this evil travesty!

Undermining confidence in the media INDEED! As though the media were worthy of any confidence or trust!

52 posted on 11/24/2019 7:07:22 AM PST by Savage Beast ( The curse of high intelligence:having to watch the unintelligent try everything you know won't work)
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To: Yardstick
The Left will be in a huff about anything that honor's truth for its own sake.

Truth--for its own sake--nullifies the groupthink narrative.

53 posted on 11/24/2019 7:09:34 AM PST by Savage Beast ( The curse of high intelligence:having to watch the unintelligent try everything you know won't work)
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To: Erik Latranyi
and that the film’s intention was to undermine confidence in the media and law enforcement agencies.

Like blaming a contractor for pulling off your drywall and showing you this:

The press and FBI aren't at fault. It's that mean right-wing director whose to blame for tearing off the drywall and making the hardworking termites run around.

54 posted on 11/24/2019 7:14:00 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Who's the leader of the club that feeds on dead babies? M-O-L... O-C-H... M-O-U-S-E.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Artistic license... not that Hollywood has ever misrepresented conservatives or anything... /s


55 posted on 11/24/2019 7:25:23 AM PST by GOPJ ( Adam Schiff - Bland Dragon 'Coup Klutz Clan' -)
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To: SES1066; Liberty Valance
Yes that's excellent! So is this one:

"Media whores don’t just screw the innocent. They do a pretty good job on themselves."
~Liberty Valance~

56 posted on 11/24/2019 7:26:57 AM PST by Savage Beast ( The curse of high intelligence:having to watch the unintelligent try everything you know won't work)
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To: Erik Latranyi
I’d be even happier if he showed her talking with younger George Soros.

Libs pervert the truth on conservatives ceaselessly. It’s nice to turn that back on them.

Besides, this is probably more truth than fiction—she may have actually done this.

57 posted on 11/24/2019 7:42:31 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Flick Lives
Then they’re caught in a lie and they double down.

That sounds like the Democrats, not the Mainstream Media.

Oh, wait ...

58 posted on 11/24/2019 8:15:59 AM PST by Gritty (Trump Derangement Syndrome is the country fracturing into warring alien tribes - Daniel Greenfield)
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To: Flick Lives

Out of all the thousands so-called “journalists “ at the various levels in their twisted hierarchy you can probably fit those with any integrity and professionalism in a greyhound bus. They are so few honest journalists the best policy to take towards them as a profession is to assume they are like junkies. They are going to lie to you, they will only take from you, they have no ethics or morals and no compassion or human decency. Avoid them, treat them like the drug addled junkies they behave like.

Few are worthy of respect and those you continually watch that they don’t go native to this so-called profession. Have little to no contact and always assume they will lie about any contact you have with them.


59 posted on 11/24/2019 8:54:10 AM PST by sarge83
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To: Yardstick

The left hated Hoover’s FBI and despised the CIA. Now they run them and love them.


60 posted on 11/24/2019 8:59:02 AM PST by Luke21
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