Guest Post written by David Vardy
The 2015 movie Spotlight won a Best Picture Oscar for a story about investigative journalism. Spotlight is a story about how the Boston Globe, through its investigative reporting, directed the spotlight upon abuses in the care of children that had been covered up. In so doing the Boston Globe took on a monolithic institution which had hidden the truth about three cases of abuse, growing to 13 and ultimately to 90 Catholic priests who had abused their young charges.
The 2015 movie Spotlight won a Best Picture Oscar for a story about investigative journalism. Spotlight is a story about how the Boston Globe, through its investigative reporting, directed the spotlight upon abuses in the care of children that had been covered up. In so doing the Boston Globe took on a monolithic institution which had hidden the truth about three cases of abuse, growing to 13 and ultimately to 90 Catholic priests who had abused their young charges.
The Boston Globe took on the perpetrators against all odds. They
conducted intensive journalistic investigation and brought to light information
about mass culpability which was known to many but not revealed to the public. The
film focuses upon the process of investigative journalism. Where is
investigative journalism in Newfoundland and Labrador, where the abuses at
Mount Cashel were among the first to be exposed in what ultimately became a
global phenomenon of sexual predation by Christian pastors, first brought to
light by the Sunday Express?
