Spotlight Essays (442 words) - , Term Papers

Rusy Riggs 4/20/19 Spotlight Spotlight is a great film that follows the struggle of newspaper journalists who are trying to find the truth of a blockbuster story. It's based on a true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered a massive scandal of priests who have molested children in the Catholic Archdiocese. The story would shake the entire Catholic religion to its core. Walter Robinson , who was in charge of the spotlight group , believe d that the story need ed to be told and that , if not , the victims wouldn't have be en heard. Marty Baron , who became the new editor of the Boston Globe , also believe d that the story need ed to be told and didn't understand why. Marty kn ew t hat newspapers were dying and was trying to find a way to revive it. "What I'm more focused on right now is finding a way to make this paper essential to its readers," said Marty. Walter underst ood what Marty was after and follow ed his lead in crack ing the story. Everyone who was on spotlight was doing everything they c ould to find the truth in the story. Mike Rezendes , Sacha Pfeiffer, and Matt Carroll were working with Walter , interviewing victims and f ound in Boston alone , there ha d been 90 priests who had sexual interaction with minors. What made the job so hard for S potlight was getting the files of the reports from the courthouse. Mitchell Garabedian , the lawyer who re presented the sexually abused victims , work ed with Mike to release the files of all the priests who had sexual interaction with minors . Mitchell t old Mike the files were public files and were view able to anyone. Mike ask ed to see the files but Mitchell sa id th e files couldn't be accessed because the Catholic Church ha d t hem sealed. The Church , even today, has so much power that they are able to prevent others seeing public documents. Spotlight wouldn't take no for an answer and eventually g ot the files and release d the article. The Boston Globe released an article that many vie w as damning . In my opinion , the article needed to be released with the files of names because when people don't speak out the problem keeps growing. This was a gutsy call for the Globe because the Catholic Church , with all the power they have , could have made the Boston Globe a living hell . As a Catholic, the Globe did the right thing in writing the article because people who do wrong need to pay the consequences.