The Film Spotlight By Josh Singer And Tom Mccarthy
The film “Spotlight” written by Josh Singer and Tom Mccarthy was a phenomenal film , based on a true story on how the Boston Globe uncovered the scandal within Catholic Churches and molestation from priest in Boston. There’s a new sheriff in town looking into making some drastic changes to Boston Globe newspaper, his name was Marty Baron the new editor from Florida. “We need to focus on the institution, not the individual priests. Practice and policy; show me the church manipulated the system so that these guys wouldn't have to face charges, show me they put those same priests back into parishes time and time again. Show me this was systematic, that it came from the top, down” said Marty Baron. When the new editor from Florida (an outsider)
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Which of course was Spotlight’s craft. Boston Globe was a newspaper company that published a variety of articles and “Spotlight” had there own column within the newspaper and consisted of an investigative team of four people, Walter aka Robby Robinson (lead editor of the column), Mike Rezendes, Sacha Pfeiffer, and Matt Carroll. The column Spotlight took there time when writing, it took them a couple of months to a year to publish an article due to fact the team thoughtfully evaluated each situation making sure they had all the evidence they needed before publishing the story, that’s what made them different and reliable to their readers. As soon as the assignment of the Geoghan case was distributed among the reports , Spotlight went right to their resources and requested for old newspaper clippings for this case, Walter Robison and Sacha Pfeiffer went to meet with Eric Macleish a Boston attorney who represented victims of sexual abuse by priest. Robison and Macleish were trying to get some names of victims to use for their story. While Mike Rezendes went to see Mitchell Garabedian another Boston attorney who also represented victims of sexual abuse. Mitchell Garabedian was the one who took the church to court the first time for some documents , which lead the church wanting Mr.Garabedian disbarred and for his
Which of course was Spotlight’s craft. Boston Globe was a newspaper company that published a variety of articles and “Spotlight” had there own column within the newspaper and consisted of an investigative team of four people, Walter aka Robby Robinson (lead editor of the column), Mike Rezendes, Sacha Pfeiffer, and Matt Carroll. The column Spotlight took there time when writing, it took them a couple of months to a year to publish an article due to fact the team thoughtfully evaluated each situation making sure they had all the evidence they needed before publishing the story, that’s what made them different and reliable to their readers. As soon as the assignment of the Geoghan case was distributed among the reports , Spotlight went right to their resources and requested for old newspaper clippings for this case, Walter Robison and Sacha Pfeiffer went to meet with Eric Macleish a Boston attorney who represented victims of sexual abuse by priest. Robison and Macleish were trying to get some names of victims to use for their story. While Mike Rezendes went to see Mitchell Garabedian another Boston attorney who also represented victims of sexual abuse. Mitchell Garabedian was the one who took the church to court the first time for some documents , which lead the church wanting Mr.Garabedian disbarred and for his