Twitter Promotion of "Spotlight" movie

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So I’m checking the Twitter feed for #PopeinDC and always toward the top is a “Promoted” post by @SpotlightMovie for a movie of the same name coming out November 6. Slated as “The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.”

Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Michael eaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery

Interesting marketing approach on the part of Open Road Films to pay to promote the film this way and tagged to the Pope’s visit. Search Twitter for anything with "pope’ in it and there’s the ad within the top 4 returns.
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So I’m checking the Twitter feed for #PopeinDC and always toward the top is a “Promoted” post by @SpotlightMovie for a movie of the same name coming out November 6. Slated as “The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.”

Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Michael eaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery

Interesting marketing approach on the part of Open Road Films to pay to promote the film this way and tagged to the Pope’s visit. Search Twitter for anything with "pope’ in it and there’s the ad within the top 4 returns.
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Evil will do anything to take the spotlight off of good. These people have an agenda, and they acted according to that agenda. It is distasteful, but ultimately an intelligent move on their part. (intelligent in a worldly way; spiritually they are purposefully demeaning the Church with the intent of pulling people away; a truly stupid move.)

As for the movie, we’ll see. I doubt anything relating to the Church will be factual outside of the reality that we had a problem that needed addressing. Good people will be made to look evil, evil people will be made to look as though they’re representative of the entire Church, and the Church as a whole will be made to look as though we either don’t care about the victims, or actively promote these evil acts.

In other words, standard liberal dribble, completely bereft of journalistic and artistic integrity; and about as attached to reality as a Saturday morning cartoon.
 
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Evil will do anything to take the spotlight off of good. These people have an agenda, and they acted according to that agenda. It is distasteful, but ultimately an intelligent move on their part. (intelligent in a worldly way; spiritually they are purposefully demeaning the Church with the intent of pulling people away; a truly stupid move.)

As for the movie, we’ll see. I doubt anything relating to the Church will be factual outside of the reality that we had a problem that needed addressing. Good people will be made to look evil, evil people will be made to look as though they’re representative of the entire Church, and the Church as a whole will be made to look as though we either don’t care about the victims, or actively promote these evil acts.

In other words, standard liberal dribble, completely bereft of journalistic and artistic integrity; and about as attached to reality as a Saturday morning cartoon.
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As someone originally from Boston, whose childhood parish harbored two of these molesters, I completely disagree. The Spotlight team from the Globe did yeoman work and shone a light on a dark, dirty business.

Cardinal Law should have been banished to a monastery instead of given a cushy job in Rome. Yes, there are those with an agenda who hate the Church… and some priests and bishops handed them a big, juicy scandal on a silver platter. The institutional Church (in the guise of perpetrators and those who covered up the crimes) has only itself to blame.
 
I don’t care about the ‘agenda’ of the people of the people reporters who broke the story (I suspect their real agenda was to win a Pulitzer) or the producers of the film.

We should be more concerned with the evil in the Church and the bishops who covered it up.

“The road to hell is paved with the skulls of erring priests, with bishops as their signposts.”
St. John Chrysostom
 
Well, get used to it’s promotion. It will be featured in reports
and stories too numerous to count in all kinds of media leading up to the Academy Awards. Don’t be surprised if it doesn’t win “Best Picture”.
 
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