Hollywood’s woman journalist problem: Why does it endure?
In Clint Eastwood’s latest movie, a journalist from The Atlanta-Journal Constitution will stop at nothing to get her story. In this case, that’s not a compliment. “Richard Jewell,” a biopic about the man falsely accused of bombing the 1996 Olympics, infers that real-life reporter Kathy Scruggs slept with an FBI agent in exchange for a scoop about the case.
The newspaper is so incensed that it hired a lawyer to demand that Warner Bros. include a prominent disclaimer about its portrayal. Ms. Scruggs is no longer alive to defend herself.
Hollywood’s journalism genre has long equated a vital profession with the so-called oldest one. As far back as the 1912 silent movie “The Scoop” all the
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