I know what journolists are like, I was on a paper staff 4 years in high school, and several years in college. Various editor positions.
Had a lot of friends in journalism and one roommate as a j major.
They thought everything they received for classwork was hard. Many started partying Thursday night thru to Sunday morning. I’ve been at the journalism parties.
The girls got drunk and if they were horny or liked you, they got very forward. More than once I had to brush off a drunk and handsy female editor.
The main sport, hobby, and past time of the journalist, is drinking. And allcmy journo firends and acquaintences did it, these were the hardcore folks who were in the major AND actually being college paper staff, these were the people who were hardcore about their careers and making their portfolios so they could get better positions once out of college.
It’s accurate. It’s reality.
Which is why I am sure the movie portrays this female reporter accurately.
https://www.ajc.com/news/local/the-ballad-kathy-scruggs/Ua5vSJBTHzkQfC1Lvs6snK/
“She always drank a fair amount and smoked a fair amount and took drugs: Prozac for depression, Fen-Phen for weight loss, Lipitor for cholesterol, Xanax for anxiety,” Parke said. “She took all this stuff that interacted with each other.”
“Law enforcement loved her, just loved her,” said co-author Kent Alexander, a former federal prosecutor. The book does note the time police responded at 3 a.m. when Scruggs refused to get out of a taxi outside a Buckhead hotel. She was drunk, naked and sitting in the driver’s seat.
“Kathy lived her life very fully,” said co-author Kevin Salwen. “She lived hard, she played hard.”
I think it was Will Rogers who wrote "If you call a wise man a "pinhead" he just laughs. If you call a pinhead a pinhead, he gets mad."
They are probably offended because they resemble Eastwood's portrayal of them quite a lot.
Also, I in the comment section on the linked article, there is someone claiming this woman reporter died of an overdose in 2002. They didn't say of what, but the implication is illicit drugs.
I know a lady whose husband has been in A.A.
Typically in the meetings he attends there will be anywhere between 2 to 4 local television reporters attending.
Just sayin’.