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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Heck. We know it. They know it. It is called using assets, and when they have them, they use them. Simple as that. If men had them, THEY would probably use those assets too.
TOO LATE, if your journalists and others inserted a prominent disclaimer in your paper saying your stories are full of sh*t, this movie never would have been made to shed the light of truth on the media hit job.
The Atlantic Journal Constipation “demands.”
How cute.
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