[Crucial]

So the film puts this female reporter in a bad light. Is the controversy about something real or the casting of a modern female in a bad light?

[Balata]

She actually represents the BAD media.

It is a great movie and very realistic.

I would give it a two thumbs up.

[a fool in paradise]

CBS put Richard Jewell in a bad light and accused him of a terrorist bombing.

FUCBS.

[Jimmy The Snake]

I saw the movie ... and after reading Deep state target Padopolus book - good movie go see it.
1-FBI cannot be trusted, do not talk to them w/o a lawyer. The will manufacture evidence to make a story if they have to. The FBI was evil taking advantage of a guy who didn’t know any better.

2-Media cannot be trusted, they want their Lois Lane Scoop. The movie did not depict the woman as a total whore, but rather would resort to any tactic to get the story

3-Even when the new he was innocent, they still pursued the case and story

4-Thank God Jewell had the sense to call a guy he knew from work a number of years ago, as he was a lawyer and Jewell was offered a book deal. He would still be in jail today if he hadn’t

[a fool in paradise]

CBS can’t say what’s really on their minds, this movie puts the FBI in a bad light at a time that the FBI is being challenged in the “Russiagate” criminal conspiracy coup.

The FBI attempted to railroad a completely innocent man in the Atlanta Olympic bombing.

[G Larry]

Check the subject reporters reputation.

Seems pretty well established to me.

[lepton]

The movie depicts Scruggs, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper reporter, offering sex for confidential information from an FBI source about the case.
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It’s clear the FBI agent thinks the offer was at least potentially in exchange for sex, but it seemed ambiguous as to whether they were going to have sex regardless.

My understanding is that in real life the reporter had sex with the FBI agent, and the FBI agent leaked the info to her. The disputed point was whether it was a trade, or just a regular hookup.

[Nifster]

It was real

Press got caught and they hate it. Trying like mad to say it’s fake

[Spirochete]

So the film puts this female reporter in a bad light. Is the controversy about something real or the casting of a modern female in a bad light?

The unscrupulous report is a sub-plot. The thrust of the movie is about underhanded FBI agents trying to railroad a man they knew could not have planted the bomb and call in the bomb threat, based on the event timeline. The acted based on a profiler's opinion.

[moovova]

None of the Left is going to see this movie.

And none of the Right will be swayed by the MSM’s whining about the poor female reporter’s perceived mis-characterization. The MSM’s opinion matters nada...

[rlmorel]

I heard the left was upset that a conservative producer implied that there are female reporters who use sexual favors to advance their careers.

I guess they never heard of Ali Watkins.

From the “EVERY BONE IN MY BODY WANTS TO DEFEND ALI WATKINS”: SEX, PRESS FREEDOM, AND THE COMPLICATED CASE OF A TIMES REPORTER

“...As a woman journalist who spent her career trying to puncture the notion that all of us sleep with our sources and that’s how we get stories,” former Times executive editor Jill Abramson told me, “I hate the whole situation more than I can say...”

I found this hilarious from plagiarist Jill Abramson, former Executive Editor of the New York Times...granted, she is more unattractive than roadkill so she could never trade sexual favors for information.

Of course, Jill Abramson just used the fact that she had female genitals and all the legal protections and power of negative sexual innuendo against her male superiors to plow her way all the way up to Chief Editor of the NYT.

Jill Abramson and women like her may not have actively allowed men to use them as sex toys to get what they want, but make no mistake, they use every tool in that feminist toolbar to climb to the top.

And like other affirmative action executives, she taints those who did get to the top on their own hard work and talent with the stain that they may have acted like she and so many of her feminist cohorts did and do.

[BradyLS]

Best thing to do is read about the ACJ reporter, Kathy Scruggs. She was a real individual who somehow got the tip that the FBI were looking into Richard Jewell. Kathy was known to be an aggressive reporter and fairly chummy with law enforcement. Some folks think that to get a tip like that, she may have compromised her integrity.

The movie shows the Scruggs character offering sex(?) to an FBI agent (but not using those words to put the point across) in exchange for the tip. He whispers the tip to her and they leave the bar together. We’re supposed to guess what happens next. The FBI agent in the movie that gave the tip is a composite character and represents several agents involved in the case. So the movie strongly insinuates what Scruggs did to get the tip without saying who she got it from.

Later in the movie, Scruggs tries to make contact with Jewell’s lawyer (maybe to help Jewell, maybe to add wood to the kindling) but is so aggressive in her tactics that he wants nothing to do with her. I don’t know if that really happened. She also figures out how Jewell could not have planted the bomb, but sits on the discovery. (It’s okay, Team Jewell and the FBI reached the same conclusion independently.) And that’s where the movie pretty much drops her character.

[Vermont Lt]

My wife was a large market reporter for 20 years. There are certainly women that flirted to get close to sources, but she never knew of anyone trading sex for access.

Maybe that’s why none of them are reporters any more.