Posted on 11/24/2019 3:44:49 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
Clint Eastwood’s new film Richard Jewell has been criticised for its portrayal of one of the key journalists involved in reporting on the 1996 Atlanta bombing case on which the film is based.
Jewell was a security guard who discovered the bomb and led bystanders away; he was investigated by the FBI for several weeks but never charged. After two further bombings, Eric Robert Rudolph was identified as a suspect, and convicted in 2005. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution controversially named him three days later.
Kevin G Riley, editor in chief of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, said in a letter to the Wrap that the film’s suggestion that its reporter Kathy Scruggs traded sex for information from an FBI agent was not true, and that the film’s intention was to undermine confidence in the media and law enforcement agencies.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
But, in a larger sense, we can not denigrate—we can not calumniate—we can not slander — the media and the FBI. The unscrupulous men and women, arrogant and ignorant, who connive there, have tarnished it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
Why don't YOU make a movie explaining how the Fake News Media and self-aggrandizing government hacks got it all wrong and destroyed a decent, innocent man?
I'm not even sure why we should believe Eric Robert Rudolph was the perp.
RIP Richard Jewell. Well done, faithful servant.
Good one.
Nope. The mockingbird state media and the feebs did that to themselves.
Nicely done!
I have no confidence in either.
Nothing to undermine. Not a single thing.
EXCELLENT!!! Only had my first cup of caffeine but this is my vote for 'Post of the Day'!
Screw you, Kevin G. Riley you low-down, dirty, son-of-a.....oh, wait.....this is satire, isn't it? Blast you, Ensign Pulver! You got us!
Prince Andrew is a vile, arrogant boor, but he would be ill-advised to speak with the FBI voluntarily about Epstein. If he is smart (and he isn’t), he will steer clear of that organization.
Hi.
“...and that the film’s intention was to undermine confidence in the media “
Confidence in the media!? Bwahaahaa...
5.56mm
It the Guardian did not like it, it was a good movie.
So certain aspects of the female persuasion have been using a very private tool in their toolbox since time began. Others not. Just remember that # is the POUND sign when not being used as a millennial catch phrase. And oh yes there are all manner and variety of whores of either sex out there
Yes, and that is just the truly obvious. What about things under the radar, and there is no doubt that there is plenty under the radar when the corporate attitude at the time was revealed for all to see, in WACO alone. Now does anyone think that attitude has changed for the better seeing what we have seen with the present “leadership”?
Is this movie going to upset Sean Hannity’ s FBI “great American” percentages?
BUT - Pediphilia is ok. OMG! the twisted get more twisted.
I spent 90’s working in ATL. What the ajc did to Jewel was awful and criminal..his attorney Lin Wood successfully cleared his name.
“...the film’s intention was to undermine confidence in the media and law enforcement agencies.” What confidence?
“....and that the film’s intention was to undermine confidence in the media and law enforcement agencies.”
That ship has sailed!
So has the AJC. What a joke of a “paper”.
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