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1. ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION RICHARD JEWELL REPORTER MOVIE
2. ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION RICHARD JEWELL REPORTER LICENSE

The claim was that Jewell's reputation had been injured by the AJC and others. The AJC and other media were sued after Jewell was cleared. Support stories like this by supporting local journalism. Kiss said he is "just appalled" at the film's portrayal of Scruggs, whom he described as hardworking, fearless and a reporter who took pride "in getting the story right." "She did not have to sleep with anyone to get a story," Kiss said. Kiss, who worked with Scruggs in Anderson and then later at the Asheville Citizen-Times in western North Carolina, is livid about the film's portrayal of his co-worker and one of his dearest friends. called the AJC's claims in the letter "baseless" and said the film was based on "a wide range of highly credible source material," according to Variety magazine. The Independent Mail is seeking a copy of the letter from Lavely & Singer, the California law firm that sent it on behalf of the AJC and the newspaper's parent corporation, Cox Enterprises. That is entirely false and malicious, and it is extremely defamatory and damaging.” “Such a portrayal makes it appear that the AJC sexually exploited its staff and/or that it facilitated or condoned offering sexual gratification to sources in exchange for stories. “The AJC’s reporter is reduced to a sex-trading object in the film,” the letter says, according to the newspaper.

ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION RICHARD JEWELL REPORTER LICENSE

In a letter sent this week to Eastwood, screenwriter Billy Ray, Warner Brothers and others, the AJC is demanding a "prominent disclaimer" be added to the film to acknowledge that some of the events portrayed in it were "imagined for dramatic purposes, and artistic license and dramatization were used in the film’s portrayal of events and characters," the AJC reported.

The film implies Scruggs gave sexual favors to get the information, according to multiple media outlets. Scruggs, who was a reporter at Atlanta Journal-Constitution at the time of the bombing, broke the story that Jewell was considered a suspect. Richard Jewell was under FBI scrutiny for about three months before he was cleared.

ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION RICHARD JEWELL REPORTER MOVIE

There was nothing unethical about how she did her work."ĭecades later, how Scruggs is portrayed as a journalist is at the center of controversy that surrounds the film "Richard Jewell." The movie focuses on the security guard who was heralded for saving lives when a bomb went off in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park in 1996, but who later became a suspect in the bombing. She would wear that frustration on her sleeve. And she would get frustrated if people were keeping something from her. She would get upset when people were supposed to tell her something but wouldn't. "She was just out there, charging ahead," Gouch said. And she could be loud and brash if the mood struck her. But she was always a good reporter with a tremendous work ethic, said Gouch and Kiss. She was young and driven, according to those who knew her. It was the early 1980s when Scruggs arrived in Anderson to be an education reporter. Her former colleagues said she didn't cross ethical boundaries to land a story, as is suggested in "Richard Jewell," the movie that includes a portrayal of her as a reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She liked white wine and Johnnie Walker Red, and she smoked "like a chimney," Kiss said. She was charming and kind, generous and profane, according to Tony Kiss, a former colleague at the newspaper in Anderson, South Carolina, who became her longtime friend. She had this big personality - the kind you never forget." "You always knew when Kathy was in the room," said her former colleague John Gouch. Perhaps the subject wouldn't be as commanding as she was. She'd launch into a story - maybe something about the person she had just run into, the interview she had just finished. Kathy Scruggs would walk into the Independent Mail newsroom and drop her purse and notebook on her desk, a daily effort that caused two loud, distinct thuds. Watch Video: Olivia Wilde defends her 'Richard Jewell' character amid backlash