Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’: Atlanta Newspaper Demands Disclaimer on Depiction of Female Reporter

Variety ^ | December 9, 2019 | Brent Lang

[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.”

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

So do some of the male reporters.

I don't believe them either.

[kiryandil]

AJC also piled onto the smear of the Covington kids.

AJC is more shameless than a crack whore down to her last dollar.

[kiryandil]

NYT newsslut Ali Watkins was bumper-hitching James Wolfe.

[kiryandil]

Crohn's, and stress over the legal backlash to her Jewell hitpiece.

I can see it doing her in.

[euram]

It seems to me that the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation should post a disclaimer on the front page of every newspaper informing the public that they have taken literary license with its reporting for dramatic effect.

Fair is fair.

[Equine1952]

47 years of marriage and now you tell me. Dang. :)

[kiryandil]

That would leave a mark.   

[Bob434]

all he has to do is say it was a parody and all will be forgotten

[yesthatjallen]

Thank you.

This is proof the Eastwood script isn't pure fiction. There are female journalists who do trade sex for inside information.

Ali Watkins

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Atlanta Newspaper Demands Disclaimer on Depiction of Female Reporter

This is rich - the paper which helped defame Jewell complaining that a movie's portrayal of its reporter isn't accurate or fair. Sucks when it happens to you, doesn't it?

[ETCM]

For all us married guys, it goes without saying...

[cgbg]

It sounds like there is another movie to be made here—who killed her?

[rlmorel]

That was my immediate first thought...

Screw them. They can sit on it and rotate.

[lightman]

Or a slip of the nip will land a tip.

[Tunehead54]

It's also called a "quicky pro quote".

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Good one! First it was a "Heh, heh, heh."

Then I decided actually it deserved an actual LOL but I'm kind of tired but it was so timely, punny, a good play on a phrase, slightly risqué, properly demeaning of the presstitute animals who will print anything to hurt their own country which was founded on the light of true freedom for all - as long as it fits their narrative - because we're actually their enemy so I thought I'd mention it.

Hope you don't mind me pointing this out as every one else seems to have missed it.

Bump.

;-)

[Darksheare]

Also reminds me of something Erin Brockovich supposedly said about how she was going to get information on PCG&E in California, “they’re called boobs”.
Now wether or not she actually said it.. it made it into the movie about her.

[Brilliant]

Apparently they do.

[mewzilla]

The paper won’t sue. Why: discovery.

[Justa]

“Crohn’s, and stress over the legal backlash to her Jewell hitpiece.

I can see it doing her in.”

Her career, maybe. But she was ‘done in’ by an overdose of morphine ostensibly from her own hand.

But you think it’s someone else’s fault? That’s how you’re going to play it to a conservative website? She dindunuffin?

[kiryandil]

But you think it’s someone else’s fault?

I'll thank you to quit putting words in my mouth.

That’s how you’re going to play it to a conservative website?

I've been here a LOT longer than you. So I doubt that I'm "playing it" any way you think I'm "playing it".

For the record, I'm enjoying the post-mortem trashing the newswhore is getting. The screams of outrage from the Twitter "journalists" are music to my ears.