PENNSYLVANIA
Daily Times
By Phil Heron, Delaware County Daily Times
POSTED: 08/10/16
I get asked all the time to explain the problems facing the newspaper industry.
It struck me again as I sat near tears in a movie theater watching the Oscar-winning move “Spotlight,” which detailed the investigative team from the Boston Glove and their work in uncovering the massive problem with predator priests abusing children in the Boston Archdiocese.
The sadness for me was two-fold: First, as a Catholic, the move could not possibly have painted the church in a worse light, one by the way I believe was richly deserved. Much like what took place here in Philadelphia, the church’s reaction and policies concerning child sexual abuse by priests was abhorrent.
But I felt another sadness as well, one that stems from more than four decades in the newspaper business.
The move clearly showed what we are in danger of losing in this racket, our mission of being a watchdog on what is going on in our towns and schools.
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