Richard Jewell (2019)

Richard Jewell was slandered/libeled by the media for discovering pipe bombs and saving lives at the 1996 Olympics.

Great movie about Richard Jewell; a security guard and police officer famous for discovering a backpack containing three pipe bombs, and helping to evacuate the area and save lives at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. But the media (NBC, CNN) did a "trial by media" that crucified him, until he was eventually exonerated, won a lawsuit/settlement, and the real bomber was caught (Eric Rudolph).

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2020-01-08

It was a worthy telling of a story. Not quite a documentary, but a quite watchable Hollywood'ed version of one. This is a Clint Eastwood (Director) movie about these events. Good movie, that got lousy reviews and viewership -- but was definitely a story worth telling (and watching).

The left was outraged that Clint portrayed sloppy and malicious journalist, who died in a drug overdose years later, as someone that would abuse substances and trade sex for confidential information. Which doesn't seem like a big stretch. And to be fair, Clint did take some liberties -- like the FBI agent was really an amalgamation of multiple characters, and some of the timeline was tweaked slightly to tell a better story.

Media hated it for telling a story that they all but buried, and it reminds people of a truth they don't want brought up. They also complained of the portrayal of Scruggs (now deceased) as someone who did anything it took to get a story (including sleeping with the FBI agent). And claim there's no evidence of that. But there's no evidence against it either, and the rush to judge her isn't as bad/impactful as AJC's and Scruggs rush to judge Jewell. And there is evidence of Scruggs reporting innuendos and hunches as facts, and got key facts themselves wrong. So at best, she and her editors were sloppy and unprofessional -- it's not hard to imagine someone like that, wouldn't use all tools at their disposal to get a story.

There's some irony in a movie that exposed the character assassination of Jewell, that the character assassins are whining that it was done back to one of their own (to a lesser extent than they had done): sanctimonious hypocrites comes to mind. Either way, a worthy portrayal of a significant story, even if not the most entertaining or lighthearted affair. About as well done as you could do, given the facts.

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If you want to see leftist bias in media, you just have to look at all the examples of how far off from their reviewers are from their viewers. I use the spread as a predictor of whether I'll like a film. Big spread with audience over critics? I'm going to like it. But big spread with critics over audience? I'll usually side with audience.

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	Richard Jewell - This got a 74/96 split between viewers/reviewers. The reviewers didn't like it as much because it made the far left media look bad for railroading the guy, and they are the lapdogs/employees of those outlets. The viewers obviously liked the sincerity of the story.

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Richard Jewell

Richard Jewell was a security guard and police officer famous for his role in the events surrounding the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. While working as a security guard for the Olympics, he discovered a backpack containing three pipe bombs and alerted police and helped evacuate the area before the bomb exploded, saving many people from injury or death.

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