Atlanta Newspaper demands retraction on Richard Jewell’s portrayal of journalist

[lollapoe]

Wow, "Richard Jewell" depicts Kathy Scruggs - a real Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter - sleeping with an FBI agent to land a scoop about the '96 Olympic bombing.

But there's no evidence it happened, and Scruggs died in 2001 and cannot defend herself. https://t.co/47KhEZoBsb
- Zack Stanton (@zackstanton) December 9, 2019
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Comments

[830guy]

It’s like Olivia took two steps forward with A Vigilante and Booksmart then fell all the way back to 1996 after working with Eastwood and making stupid comments like this one.

[bellwetherr]

olivia's statement is so fucking stupid - it is not feminist to use your sexuality to get info out of a source, it is unethical af and to turn something so offensive to a dead woman and her family into a fucking feminist statement is SO unnecessary

[aiyaiyai]

pretty much

[disasterboss]

yup! she's being intentionally disingenuous to say that the people upset with this are doing so because of an antiquated idea of feminism meaning women have to be virginal darlings with no complexity. tfw when the male head of a newspaper has a better handle on feminism than you....🙃 and your point about this being especially heinous because she's not here to defend herself, lord.

[bellwetherr]

sometimes i think i've heard it all but this is honestly unreal

[yurasama_love]

That's fucked up.

[genbu_no_miko24]

"what in the libfem hell??"

LOL IRL cause you right!😂

[beysactingcoach]

I love how she hinged on that her character shouldn’t be reduced to something implied.

Yeah but that whole implication means the writer and of course the director undermined her career. She was a goddamn journalist for a respected newspaper hell yeah people are going to zone in the fact that you implied this reporter had no integrity in her job and exchanged sex for scoops.