Hollywood, in its fashion, knows whose images it's safe to dump on.
Journalists are easy pickings.
The yearlong orgy of sex inquisition, in the wake of revelations about Bill Clinton's peccadilloes surely did not help the profession improve its public standing. Yet, for all his pains, this hero is not granted a Hollywood ending. He camped on his doorstep and strategized with him. He hired security for him when he feared for his life and his children's. And when CBS put the lid on Wigand's interview with Mike Wallace, because CEO Larry Tisch didn't want to botch his deal for a lucrative sale to Westinghouse, Bergman refused to let the organization live his morals for him.