Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell highlights media malpractice
by Madeline Fry | December 02, 2019 03:42 PM
Some time after midnight on July 27, 1996, Richard Jewell was meandering through Centennial Olympic Park. Thousands of spectators had gathered for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and the 33-year-old security guard was patrolling the AT&T tower he had been told to observe. He wasn't hired to save lives, but he did.
When he pointed out a suspicious backpack to authorities, Jewell couldn’t have guessed what would happen next. While police were still evacuating bystanders, the 40-pound pipe bomb in the backpack exploded, leaving two dead and more than 100 others injured.
For two days, the man who discovered the bomb and prevented countless deaths was hailed as a hero. Then the Atlanta Journal-Constitution named Jewell as a suspect in the bombing, and three months of media smears ensued. While Jewell was under FBI investigation for being a good Samaritan, the media “portrayed him as a loser and law-enforcement wannabe who may have planted the bomb so he would look like a hero when he discovered it later,” according to the Washington Post. Overzealous reporters even camped outside his mother’s home.
The real bomber wasn’t named as a suspect for nearly two years. So in the absence of a villain, the media made one up. Already guilty in the court of public opinion, Jewell was maligned for almost three months before the Justice Department announced he was no longer a suspect.
Clint Eastwood's latest project, the upcoming film Richard Jewell, highlights this significant moment in media malpractice.
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