TIME Ideas Examines What 'Spotlight' Teaches Us About Institutional Betrayal

TIME Ideas Examines What 'Spotlight' Teaches Us About Institutional Betrayal

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What Spotlight Teaches Us About Institutional Betrayal

Time.com - February 2, 2016

By Joan Cook

Sometimes it seems like everywhere we turn, there are bad things happening to people within organizations that should have a duty to protect their members: sexual assault in the military, rape on college campuses, abuses in the church. The biographical film Spotlight offers an important reminder that to address these injustices we must look beyond individual cases to address the larger issue of institutional betrayal.

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