Welcome to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film that is shaped our take on a new release.

I'm Scott Tobias here once again with Keith Phipps and Tasha Robinson.

This week, it's All the President's Men, Alan J. Pecula's Best Picture-nominated film from 1976

about the Washington Post's investigation into the Watergate scandal. The film stars Robert

Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporters

who helped bring the sins of the

Nixon administration to light through good old-fashioned shoe leather journalism.

On the last episode, Tasha Keith and I talked about the film as a procedural and a political movie

and debated the ending. Now let's bring spotlight into the conversation and talk about the

things that connect all the president's men to Tom McCarthy's well-received new film about the Boston Globe's investigative work into the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal and the institution's efforts to cover it up.

We need to focus on the institution, not the individual priests. Practice and policy. Show me the church manipulated the system so that these guys wouldn't have to face charges.

Show me they put those same priests back into parishes time and time again.

Show me this was systemic that it came from the top down.

It's time for the forum.

Each of us has come with a topic and we'll break things down from there.

Tasha, let's start with you.

Well, my just general overview topic was journalism,

because I think one of the things that's most interesting in this pair of films is how in both

of them journalism is practiced. It's very much a hands-on craft that's done via a hell of a lot

of taking notes. And one of the things I enjoyed most about Spotlight, I have to

admit, was just watching people frantically scribbling notes, which is something you also get a lot of

in all the President's men, is just this, you know, they're looking at these yellow legal pads on which

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