Boston Globe revelations of child abuse hit the silver screen in the film Spotlight
- 9 years ago
Actors Mark Ruffalo, Stanley Tucci, Rachel McAdams and director Tom McCarthy were at the Venice Film Festival to present the movie ‘Spotlight’.
The title refers to the the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team – the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative unit in the United States.
In 2002 the paper broke the story of a systemic cover-up of over 80 abuse cases. Their coverage of the Massachusetts Catholic sex abuse scandal won the newspaper the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
“What you realise in the film – it’s systematic cover-up. It’s not just the church, it’s the police and the legislative body, it’s the politicians, it’s the power structure of Boston. It goes so deep into the community,” said actor Mark Ruffalo while Stanley Tucci added: “We want to know the secrets. We want to know those secrets, particularly when it’s something systemic, when it’s as large and as powerful an institution as the Catholic church.”
Remarkably the Boston Globe itself had eviden
The title refers to the the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team – the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative unit in the United States.
In 2002 the paper broke the story of a systemic cover-up of over 80 abuse cases. Their coverage of the Massachusetts Catholic sex abuse scandal won the newspaper the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
“What you realise in the film – it’s systematic cover-up. It’s not just the church, it’s the police and the legislative body, it’s the politicians, it’s the power structure of Boston. It goes so deep into the community,” said actor Mark Ruffalo while Stanley Tucci added: “We want to know the secrets. We want to know those secrets, particularly when it’s something systemic, when it’s as large and as powerful an institution as the Catholic church.”
Remarkably the Boston Globe itself had eviden