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 films 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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[you assume the movie is 100% factual without Eastwoods response to this issue.
Theres a lot of speculation already on this thread. Eastwood is an ethical guy. lets hear from him and stop making up BS.]
I am addressing what eastwood should do as an ethical person I believe he is, not HER behavior. If she slept with the guy, let him say so or tell us it was apochrophyl
Clint just needs to pull a Schiff and Reid. I heard it from a source that I cannot reveal.
This thread is beginning to stray from the post.
Only the living can be defamed.
What a relief for my children
You're saying she's green, like the chick Captain Kirk boinked in that Star Trek episode?
No wait, that's chlorophyll.
Cant defame the dead
That's right. Eastwood heard it from a whistleblower.
She died “peaceably in her sleep” in September 2001 and , BTW, she reportedly had undisclosed health issues. Almost sounds like the Georgia equivalent of Arkincide. Wonder what the real back story it?
Scruggs may have been a hard-charging reporter that got caught barking up the wrong tree, but she was also a flirting, flaunting alcoholic that got drunk senseless hanging around in cop bars.
If Eastwood took licence, it wasn’t much of a stretch.
Umm, it is “based on a true story”, not a documentary. And Hollywood loves to take creative license, otherwise we would be bored to sleep at the theater. As for the concern of the “Hollywood Trope” of female reporters sleeping with sources to get stories, would that be like when NYT reporter Ali Watkins slept with Senate Intelligence Committee leaker James A. Wolfe to get stories? Let’s get real, women use sex to get what they want all the time.
AJC also piled onto the smear of the Covington kids.
Was one of the best
Except they railroaded an innocent man
No but hes going to say that he defamed the newspaper. The newspaper is not dead.
Some female journalist claims “we never sleep with people for stories”. Right never in the history of journalism has that ever happened.
Eastwood should say he has information from an informed anonymous source. ;-)
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EXACTLY! EFF EM as if THEY care about accuracy? Pigs, all o of them.
We all know they screw and drug their way through their careers and life. Not shocking.
Within the last two years, there was a news article about a female reporter who did sleep with a government worker to get a story. I believe she worked for the NYT. Does anyone remember that story?
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