Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Spencer Wright's Contributions

This project was awesome, and I enjoyed learning so much about Jeffrey Wigand and the fight against big tobacco.

For this project I did all the research on the News Coverage of the events that were portrayed and not portrayed in The Insider. I used the New York Times as my main source. Unfortunately some of the articles I found I wasn't able to use because I wasn't a paid subscriber to the NYT, but I was still able to find some really good stuff. I looked at all the articles I could that had Dr. Wigand or stuff from Brown and Williamson. I also looked for newspapers from Kentucky during this time, but I wasn't able to find very much about the subject. Besides the NYT there was also an article from the Wall Street Journal that I looked at and used on the blog. I wasn't able to get it on the Wall Street Journal website because of restrictions there too, but fortunately it was posted on Dr. Wigand's own website. I also looked into the publication from Vanity about the man who knew too much, which is actually where the movie came from.

As such, I did everything on the News Coverage page and the subsequent people and specific events page. I also did everything on the intro page, besides the posting of the trailer.


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