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Robby corners the lawyer Eric Macleish in a parking lot and refuses to take no for an answer: "the hell he can't." He lays out the choice - a story about "degenerate clergy" or one about lawyers turning abuse into a "cottage industry" - and asks which the paper should write.
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In a parking lot, the reporters catch up with the lawyer Eric Macleish, who says he is too busy to talk. Robby refuses to accept it and tells him that if he does not hand over the names of priests and victims, the paper will run one of two stories: corrupt clergy, or lawyers profiting from abuse.
The parking lot is the point: no office, no appointment, no escape. Robby's opening line, "the hell he can't," sets the tone - this is not an interview but a shakedown with a deadline. What makes it work is that the threat is framed as a choice, not a threat: "which story do you want us to write?" The two options are both damaging, one aimed at the Church and one at Macleish's own profession, so silence is not a safe answer. Macleish's counter is the real wound: he claims he already sent a list of names years ago and the paper buried it, which turns the confrontation into an indictment of the Globe itself.
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“Now, which story do you want us to write?”
A polite question that works as an ultimatum: choose the story, because one of them gets written.
Neutral
“'Cause we're writing one of them.”
A plain statement that removes the option of doing nothing: one of the two is going to print.
Informal
“So I sent you guys a list of names, and you buried it.”
Years of grievance packed into one line: I handed it over, and you buried it.
Informal
“I want those names tomorrow.”
The shortest possible ultimatum: no threat, just a deadline that leaves no room to stall.
Neutral
We've got two stories here. We've got a story about degenerate clergy, and we've got a story about a bunch of lawyers turning child abuse into a cottage industry. Now, which story do you want us to write? 'Cause we're writing one of them.
Siguiente · 13from the top downLa escena: The Team Goes After the SystemHe is too busy to meet them anywhere else, so they catch him on his way, refusing to accept his brush-off.
One is about degenerate clergy, the other about lawyers who turned child abuse into a lucrative cottage industry - both damaging, whichever gets printed.
He says he sent a list of names to the paper years ago and it buried the story, which is why he could not pursue the cases without the press.
It is a pressure tactic framed as a choice: give up the names of priests and victims, or the paper runs one of two damaging stories.
