Posted on 12/09/2019 6:38:35 PM PST by kiryandil
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is asking Warner Bros. and the makers of “Richard Jewell” to release a statement acknowledging it took dramatic license when it portrayed journalist Kathy Scruggs as trading sex for tips.
The Clint Eastwood film looks at the media circus that broke out around Jewell, a security guard who came under suspicion for orchestrating the Centennial Olympic Park bombing before being exonerated. Scruggs, an employee at the paper, broke the story that Jewell was under investigation by the FBI. The film shows Scruggs, portrayed by Olivia Wilde, sleeping with an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) to get the story. Scruggs died in 2001 at the age of 42. The paper has maintained that there is no evidence that Scruggs slept with anyone involved in the Jewell investigation.
“We hereby demand that you immediately issue a statement publicly acknowledging that some events were imagined for dramatic purposes and artistic license and dramatization were used in the film’s portrayal of events and characters,” the letter, sent to Warner Bros., Eastwood, and screenwriter Billy Ray, reads. “We further demand that you add a prominent disclaimer to the film to that effect.”
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It's delicious! I'll have to go watch this one.
They are setting him up for a defamation case. Did he use the actual name of the Newspaper?
#ibelieveclint
I have a counter offer. No.
Here’s an idea, Clint can write them back. Then say prove she didn’t. Might help at the box office.
One, you can’t slander or libel the dead. Two, sooooo... you say it’s painful to be accused of doing something you didn’t do?
I guess it’s a real bitch to get back what you hand out.
The irony is strong with this one
Are tits for tips like a tete-a-tete or a tit for a tat?
Samson, I’m personally in favor of “ESAD” over “I’m sorry if anyone was offended,” but I’ll understand whatever other response you might have.
Exactly. The whole movie is about her and F-Troop defaming an innocent man who also happened to be a hero. Anyway, if Eastwood put it in the film, it is probably true.
Tits is a friendly word. Like a name. Tits, meet toots, toots, tits, tits, toots...
Don't know.
I was just enjoying all the NPC Progtard "reporter" Bluechecks over on Twitter skitting their little skanties over this.
So woke.
The “journalist’s” chief argument seems that they’re not whores.
That’s a tough sell.
They actually are whores. Case dismissed.
[“Her work was about her only anchor. Once she lost that she was rudderless, she was lost at sea,” said Joey Ledford, one of her editors. “She was tenacious, she was incredibly good at building sources. I worked with a lot of good cops reporters over the years. Kathy Scruggs was the best.”]
you assume the movie is 100% factual without Eastwood’s response to this issue.
There’s a lot of speculation already on this thread. Eastwood is an ethical guy. let’s hear from him and stop making up BS.
Eastwood should say he has information from an informed anonymous source. ;-)
Ali Watkins sleeping around to get information kinda says it’s believable.
No defamation. She’s dead.
And, by the way, don’t ask too many questions about how she unexpectedly turned up dead at the ripe old age of 41 before she would have had to tell from whence the lies came.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32033303/the_atlanta_constitution/
Whoa, popular media defaming and attempting to depict a person in a negative light with little evidence?
Someone should make a movie about this ;)
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