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Don't get me wrong, it's a very good film and one that people should watch but part of me feels like The Spotlight team might not have been the best group to focus on here. For all of the talk of how difficult it would be to get this story, we didn't actually see many hurdles in their way. Even the judge ruled in their favor.
They also hinted at the fact that someone at the Globe had the info beforehand and buried it but they didn't make a big deal of it and even when Keaton admitted it was him, it was just kind of brushed off.
Which becomes more bothersome when you hear the actual guy also kind of blow it of:
"The Boston Herald also ran this story, and both papers buried it inside, about this one lawyer, Eric MacLeish who basically sent out a press release saying that he had found 20 priests in the archdiocese . Now, in truth, looking back on it and knowing Eric MacLeish, that was Eric MacLeish trying to get attention to himself so he could get more clients, which he did. We published this story and we buried it.
When we started our investigation eight years later, that clip didn’t surface. None of us remembered it. Back in 1993 I think I had been metro editor for about a month when that story ran. I had no memory of it, although I actually think I was on a golf vacation"
You'd like to think that the decision not to investigate the story then would be one of life great regrets but instead he's basically blaming the lawyer and copping pleas for why he didn't follow up on it.
For me, the heart wrenching moment was watching Rachel McAdam's nana reading the story.
Still, it was a very good movie, with great performances, and is definitely high on my must see list but it might just be Top 10 instead of Top 5. ---- NBA MOCK DRAFT #1 - https://thecourierclass.com/whole-shebang/2017/5/18/2017-nba-mock-draft-1-just-lotto-and-lotta-trades
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