This essay was originally published on Cognoscenti, WBUR.org's ideas and opinion page. It was re-posted with permission. You can read the original piece here. Spotlight, the movie about The Boston Globe's investigation into a church cover-up of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, opens in limited release nationwide Friday, including in Boston. It may well be, as a headline in Variety declared, that it's "the film that will make journalism look good again." That would certainly be a bonus for the nation's beleaguered news business. Still, questions remain about whether even such a taut, well-acted, realistic drama about a newspaper expos� from 2002 will draw movie-goers who today are far...
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