‘Spotlight’ star says reporters deserve praise

TOKYO: Rachel McAdams, the actress who portrayed a Boston Globe reporter in the Oscar-winning “Spotlight,” believes journalists should be praised as “unsung heroes,” although nothing is easy about their jobs except for the frumpy clothes they get to wear.
“It really is a dying art, and not for the faint of heart either,” she told reporters in Tokyo Thursday. “They keep institutions on their toes and keep people accountable.” “Spotlight,” directed and written by Tom McCarthy, depicts how newspaper reporters uncovered how dozens of priests in the Archdiocese of Boston had molested and raped children for decades, while church higher-ups covered it up and shuffled abusive priests from parish to parish.