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Herald & Review
THERESA CHURCHILL H&R Senior Writer
“Spotlight” may have been the best picture of 2015 according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, but you wouldn’t know it by the amount of buzz the film generated in Decatur.
It never played here, as far as I know, except for the special showing the Avon Theatre gave to Herald & Review employees and their families earlier this month.
Sad to say, the audience for a movie about public service journalism is dwindling, especially if you’re counting the number of print journalists working these days.
I admired the tenacity of the Boston Globe’s investigative reporters, as depicted in the film, as they worked long hours to uncover the systematic child sexual abuse committed by Roman Catholic priests in the Boston Archdiocese.
Their series of reports won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003.
More importantly, the story caused hundreds of other victims around the country to come forward about similar crimes committed against them, often while they served the church as altar boys.
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