Team Meeting 12/5

We met again monday night to go over the final details on our project and to go over everything together. We also went over the details of our presentation and put together our presentation outline and the time frame for each team member. We discussed in further detail each of our sections and what major points we would cover during our presentations. We also made sure that sources were done by each member correctly and that grammer and spelling is correct. Although there are a few minor things that need to still be posted onto the blog, it is basically finished and things are just about ready for our presentation.

Team Meetings 11/17 and 12/1

Because I'm losing my mind and forgot to post our team meetings, I am doing so now starting with the most recent meeting.

December 1st Meeting
We met as a group after class on Thursday to see how much progress we had made individually and as a group. The only section of the blog that had been updated was Spencer's News coverage section because  Bradley, Ami and myself were unable to log onto the blog, a problem that was soon fixed. We went over each of our topics and made sure we were all on the same page as to what we wanted the blog to look like and what research needed to be covered. We had all seen the movie by this time and decided to have our individual pages up by Sunday night. We plan to meet again on Monday night to go over the blog as a group, make any final changes and then discuss how our presentation should be executed.


November 17th Meeting
We met as a group during class time on the 17th and discussed what homework we would be doing over the break and how it would be divided among the group members. We also went over our blog layout and decided how we wanted it to look in accordance to how we would be doing the research of our project. We had previously decided to have all watched the movie before this date but not all of us did so and we made sure that we would all have it watched and the research done and posted on the blog by next meeting.

Again I'm so sorry for not doing this sooner but it's up now and will continue to stay current from now on. Thanks everyone and let me know if you have any questions.

Sources

Here is an interview between MSNBC and Wigand:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8077025/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews/t/inside-mind-whistle-blower/#.TsU6b2Mk67s

The Chicago Tribune:, Tobacco Company Sues Source for 60 Minutes Segment:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-11-22/business/9511220250_1_gary-morrisroe-tobacco-industry-jeffrey-wigand

The Chicago Tribune: Tobacco Firm Whistle-Blower Faces Government Questions

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-11-30/news/9511300268_1_tobacco-companies-jeffrey-wigand-brown-williamson

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/03/arts/tv-notes-mike-wallace-getting-over-it.html?ref=jeffreywigand

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/22/us/tobacco-company-sues-former-executive-over-cbs-interview.html?ref=jeffreywigand

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/w/jeffrey_wigand/index.html?s=oldest&

http://www.jeffreywigand.com/wallstreetjournal.php

Primary Source

I'm not sure if anyone grabbed this as one of their sources, but I couldn't see it and I thought it would be a good reference and addition to our blog. Take a look.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/13/60II/main666867.shtml

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=666896n

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/04/us/60-minutes-set-to-interview-ex-tobacco-executive-tonight.html

Also, I saw that Spencer had a great interview from PBS....here's an addition to that.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/cron.html

My sources:

So, I would think that these two would be quite efficient as being primary sources :)!

http://www.jeffreywigand.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy8b6QehChc

The youtube video is the Whistleblower Protection Hearing: Jeffrey Wigand Testimony. His personal testimony of what happened. It was done May 15, 2007.

Team Meeting 11/9

I apologize for this post being so late, but our team held a meeting during class time on Thursday to discuss our movie a bit and decide how we wanted to execute our project. We decided that we wanted to do a blog again and on the blog we want to break the content up into three different sections: What actually happened, how the movie portrayed it, and media coverage of the event. Within each of these categories will be subcategories (such as, people, events, time and place, etc). This will allow us to cover a lot of in-depth material without any post/page being too lengthy.

While in our meeting we also decided how we wanted to split up the work on getting research sources and we split the sections and research up evenly. We decided that over the weekend we would each get two different research sources and post them up on the blog for everyone else to read. Once we all have a better understanding of the event depicted in the movie, we will get together and discuss how the event is framed and go from there.