The Catholic sex abuse crisis that forever altered journalism, as depicted in Spotlight (2015)
The Boston Globes investigative journalism team of the same name and its discovery of the Boston Archdiocese's child sexual abuse scandal are portrayed in Tom McCarthy's 2015 film Spotlight.
The Boston Globe and the eponymous team allegedly wrote roughly 600 stories about the issue, which led to the public indictment of 249 Priests and Brothers and the revelation of the identities of well over 1,000 survivors, according to the movie.
Due to the Catholic Archdioceses' enormous power and influence, these atrocities were mostly ignored for decades prior to the Boston Globe article from January 2002 that ignited a revolution.
To really grasp the uphill struggle the Spotlight crew faced, one must first:
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