Being a part of the Spotlight by Zamiyha Fischer

Zamiyha Fischer 6/21/18
English 114
Being a part of The Spotlight

    The movie Spotlight specify how people in the field of Public Relations use their communication skills to come together and notify others about spreading their latest informative stories.  The true definition behind the production of the movie Spotlight is to inform viewers and listeners about the challenging work of today’s media companies. The movie Spotlight illustrates Interpersonal communications characteristics that includes media activism, sexual harassment & abuse, and external communication. Robby Robinson and the rest of the members of Boston Globe (Spotlight) fought their latest battle trying expose the sexual behavior coming from numerous priests. 
    In the movie Spotlight, Walter “Robby” Robinson and his team at Boston Globe used their media activism skills to reach out and inform the public in the city of Boston about the cover up of 90 priests who took a stand with God and began sexually abusing young children. Robby, Mike Rezendes, Matt Carroll, and Sacha Pfeiffer came together as a devoted group, and use their publishing skills and abilities to interact with the public for help and attention to reopen multiple cases from the previous years to reveal the disturbing lives of priests who use sexual behavior towards young children. Robby and his team organizes meetings with victims, witnesses, and perpetrators to create the perfect headline and the perfect stories to  the reason why people who took an oath with God, commit themselves to a disaster; and no one ever step forward to report these actions. In fact, later in the movie, Robby admitted and brought to his team’s attention that he buried all the statements of all the people who originally came forward. Interpersonal communications’ concept Media Activism played a significant role in the movie Spotlight as the team at Boston Globe expose the double lives of 90 priests to the community and the public.
    
    The movie Spotlight also uses interpersonal communications characteristics by displaying the 90 priests who used sexual harassment and abuse towards young children. Robby and his team arranged for the victims to come forward and describe the sexual abuse they endured with their priest when they were children. Sadly, as the team began to listen to these stories about children being sexually abused by someone who serves God; they also found out that these children’s’ violations started off as physical sexual harassment. The victims that came forward and cooperated with Boston Globe explained to them that their sexual abuse began as sexual harassment: how the priests would lure them into thinking it was alright to touch each other in various parts of the body. Eventually these forms of  sexual harassment lead to these priests forcing children to orally perform on them and to performing with them as molestation. The movie Spotlight’s main priority was to use their communication skills and report those who witness and became victims of sexual harassment and abuse.  
    
    The main characteristics in the movie Spotlight used the interpersonal communications concept; external communication to get help from outside the company to uncover this child molesters that’s posting as priests of churches. The members of Boston Globe were determined to find justice for these innocent victims: in fact, they went outside of their organization to get help. Boston Globe members even went to lawyers, fellow companies, and their former editor Martin Baron; to get the true help they needed to publish such a disturbing story. Boston Globe’s former editor Martin Baron and the police gave the entire team a tough time with getting the case files: so, they had no choice but to hunt down the very first victim of sexual abuse by a priest named Phil Saviano. Phil Saviano was the only victim that guided the team to doing whatever it took to convince Martin Baron that they needed his help to get these important files. External communication was used throughout the movie Spotlight to allow the members of Boston Globe to go to multiple sources to publish their story.

    The movie Spotlight illustrates interpersonal communication characteristics that includes media activism, sexual harassment, and external communication. In addition to Boston Globe trying to report 90 priests’ sexual habits and make the cover for the newspaper, they used various amounts of communication skills to do so. The Boston Globe crew finally uncovered the disturbing lives of these priests.