Ele simplesmente não se lembrava disso - e se tivesse ele não teria acreditado .
Para citar o próprio homem, que entrevistou sobre isso :
Question: The movie presents your character as either repressing the knowledge of what was going on or not acting as strongly on the knowledge of what was going on as you could have.
Answer: Yeah. Part of the reason for that being in the movie is that there was a story the Globe actually ran in 1993. The Boston Herald also ran this story, and both papers buried it inside, about this one lawyer, Eric MacLeish [played in the film by Billy Crudup] who basically sent out a press release saying that he had found 20 priests in the archdiocese [who had been accused of misconduct]. Now, in truth, looking back on it and knowing Eric MacLeish, that was Eric MacLeish trying to get attention to himself so he could get more clients, which he did. We published this story and we buried it.
When we started our investigation eight years later, that clip didn’t surface. None of us remembered it. Back in 1993 I think I had been metro editor for about a month when that story ran. I had no memory of it, although I actually think I was on a golf vacation.
Então, as possíveis razões que ele deu estão acima:
- Realmente não tendo memória do evento.
- Mesmo que ele tivesse memória do evento, duvidando de sua autenticidade.
Eu acho que o filme mostra que ele não é culpado de suprimir informações, mas que todo mundo é culpado de simplesmente perder informações.
Como diz o roteiro no final do filme:
ROBBY We buried the story in Metro. No folo. Sacha found the clip.
BEN That was you. You were Metro.
ROBBY Yeah, that was me. I’d just taken over. I don’t remember it at all. But yeah.
The room quiets. Gut punch. Ben shakes his head.
MARTY Uh, can I say something?
They turn to him.
MARTY (CONT’D) Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around in the dark. Suddenly a light gets turned on, and there’s fair share of blame to go around.
(then)
I can’t speak to what happened before I arrived but all of you have done some very good reporting here, reporting that I believe is going to have an immediate and considerable impact on our readers.
(then)
For me, this kind of story is why we do this.
Muitas pessoas perderam tantos sinais e todos eles foram um pouco culpados. Como Marty diz, eles estavam tropeçando no escuro e agora encontraram a luz - e tudo o que eles podem fazer é reportar da melhor forma possível.