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OAITW r.2.0

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3. Spotlight was exactly what you'd think. If the Spotlight Team put you on the

Reply to Doc Sportello (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 4, 2021, 09:58 PM

Oct 2021

Front Page....you were pretty well fucked. Because they were not about exposing good things....they were about exposing corruption. Their stories led to actual charges / indictments and incarcerations.

And not just about the sex abuse....although, fucking high credit due publishing this in a heavily Catholic oriented Boston. Proved that speaking truth to power is supported.

Today, with consolidations and focus on profits/shareholder payback.....papers are meh. Don't read them anymore. Yesterday's news. Hardly anyone worth reading. But I could be absolutely wrong and ignorant on my last point.

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So, I just posted to Mr. Elliot's thread that was self deleted. [View all] OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2021 OP

The Spotlight series on priest sexual abuse was pivotal in bringing the issue to the fore Doc Sportello Oct 2021 #1

Spotlight was exactly what you'd think. If the Spotlight Team put you on the OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2021 #3

As someone who worked at newspapers starting in the early 70s Wicked Blue Oct 2021 #2

NY POST was very liberal b4 Murdock IbogaProject Oct 2021 #4