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2019-12-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’: Atlanta Newspaper Demands Disclaimer on Depiction of Female Reporter
[VARIETY] 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.”
Posted by Fred 2019-12-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [21 views ]  Top

#1 Heard a piece about this on National People's Radio (NPR). Lots of outrage over the suggestion some girl journo may have boinked an FBI dude for info. Not denial. Just outrage.

No mention - absolutely no mention - of how the newspaper and the FBI totally *bleep*ed Richard Jewell's life based an FBI profiler's idea of who the perp was.

It's a good thing you can't reach thru the radio and strangle someone.
Posted by SteveS 2019-12-12 00:32||   2019-12-12 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Our era has witnessed a nonstop orgy of lying, casual slander, libel, and character assassination by the same people who'd have us believe they're defending democracy from "darkness" and malfeasance.

Screw these liars.

Now that Lin Wood has taken up Nick Sandmann's case, I hope that Sandmann wins big, and creates a precedent for a tidal wave of defamation suits against these preening, lying sacks of shit.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-12 01:04||   2019-12-12 01:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Scruggs. Reminds me of a truckstop bathroom lizard. Which would be an insult to lizards. Petri dish free clinic fake news Exposed.
Posted by Woodrow 2019-12-12 01:20||   2019-12-12 01:20|| Front Page Top

#4 .....dramatic license when it portrayed journalist Kathy Scruggs as trading sex for tips.

Trading sex for professional or economic gain? Suggesting such a thing is absolutely ridiculous.

[sarc off]
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-12 01:27||   2019-12-12 01:27|| Front Page Top

#5 So the slutty reporter at least willing to get to the bottom of the story by sleeping with an FBI agent is now dead (giving the newspaper an excuse for claiming no evidence of sex for tips). Just maybe the FBI agent or his partner or his friend or his girlfriend or wife.......... provided the evidence. But how would a building full of reporters ever get to the bottom of this.... maybe sleep with Clint Eastwood?
Posted by Airandee 2019-12-12 06:22||   2019-12-12 06:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Dunno if she did or didn't, but pics don't persuade me toward the negative.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-12 09:26||   2019-12-12 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Hanged herself?
Posted by Skidmark 2019-12-12 09:56||   2019-12-12 09:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Merc that is a very strange wiki site. English as a 3rd language?
Posted by BrujoTejano  2019-12-12 09:58||   2019-12-12 09:58|| Front Page Top

#9 So it was OK for them to slander Jewell with false accusations.

When they feel themselves similarly aggrieved, it's a major crime and people have to issue retractions. Oh, my, the irony.

It's almost as if it's OK when they do it but not OK when anyone else does it.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-12-12 10:02||   2019-12-12 10:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Re #3: Ya ne znaio. Ya Russki touriste. Ya ne panimyu.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-12 11:24||   2019-12-12 11:24|| Front Page Top

#11 This reads like Eastwood was on target. Scruggs.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-12 13:15||   2019-12-12 13:15|| Front Page Top

#12 From JohnQC's link:

However, Scruggs didn’t live to see her name being cleared.

I love a happy ending.
Posted by charger 2019-12-12 18:22||   2019-12-12 18:22|| Front Page Top

#13 Hey press: Irritating, isn't it?
Posted by gorb 2019-12-12 18:44||   2019-12-12 18:44|| Front Page Top

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