{"id":5403,"date":"2016-02-29T09:10:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T14:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5403"},"modified":"2022-04-25T08:32:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:32:23","slug":"why-spotlight-is-a-terrible-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5403","title":{"rendered":"Why Spotlight is a Terrible Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=photo><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"95%\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/02\/spotlight-film.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I was in Boston in the Spring of 2002 reporting on the priest scandal, and because I know some of what is untrue, I don\u2019t believe the personal injury lawyers or the Boston Globe\u2019s \u201cSpotlight\u201d team or the Catholic \u201cfaithful\u201d who became harpies outside Boston churches, carrying signs with images of Satan, hurling invective at congregants who\u2019d just attended Mass, and at least once \u2013 this in my presence \u2013 spitting in the face of a person who dared dispute them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/02\/29\/oscar-hangover-special-why-spotlight-is-a-terrible-film\/\">article<\/a> in <em>Counterpunch<\/em> by JoAnn Wypijewski.<\/p>\n<p>The National Center for Reason and Justice sponsors the cases of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulshanley.org\/\">Paul Shanley<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ncrj.org\/cases\/father-gordon-macrae\/\">Gordon MacRae<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was in Boston in the Spring of 2002 reporting on the priest scandal, and because I know some of what is untrue, I don\u2019t believe the personal injury lawyers or the Boston Globe\u2019s \u201cSpotlight\u201d team or the Catholic \u201cfaithful\u201d who became harpies outside Boston churches, carrying signs with images of Satan, hurling invective at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5403\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Spotlight is a Terrible Film<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5403"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9226,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions\/9226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}