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.

I have finished writing and find information on the movie and how it is portrayed.  It was my responsibility to look at movie portrayal and how it compared to real-life.  I originally wanted to find out why the director decided to do what he did in the movie, but his comments are in short supply on the subject.

I did however, find opinions of Jeff Wigand, and the 60 minutes clips and found somethings that I found quite interesting.  The such research took me days to find.  I have worked most of last night with only couple hours of sleep trying to write and get the research to back my writing up.

There is quite a bit of information that I could not cover in time to check my writing so it is left out, but can be found by the link to the sources to my page and I would encourage everybody to read what is in those links.

I looked up how to site Chicago style in a handbook that I have from my English classes I had taken at Weber State.  I also ran my pages through WhiteSmoke, a grammar checking software program, to try and get my grammar as accurate as possible.  I am going to go over the spelling and stuff of Jeffrey on my pages and make sure that I have not missed those, after I insert pictures of the cast members, because Ami couldn't do it even though she wanted to.

Bradley Wells' Group Project Happenings!

So, for the 3rd and final project we decided to do it on the movie "The Insider" with Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. It was about a big tobacco company whistle blower named Jeffrey Wigand. It was a very well done movie and I enjoyed watching it and researching it thoroughly. I learned a lot that i never knew before. I spent a great deal of time on this, watching the movie 5 different times to get a firm understand of how the movie portrays the events. Then I spent hours upon hours going over websites looking for information that was relevant to my portion of the project, which was specific events in terms of actual history and how the movie portrayed them. In total, I easily spent over 40 hours working on this project, I lost track of the exact number. I did spend from 11:00 P.M. last night until 10:00 A.M. working on the project, with only maybe 1 hour of break time in there to be sure that I had everything finalized and in working order. This was probably the most fun I had with a project, mainly because the movie was very intriguing and intense. My pages are done, and everything is looking good.

Wigand on 60 Minutes

Hey Everybody,

I know that Brad was looking for 60 Minutes with Wigand.  I finally found it.  The link to it is here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20094836-10391709.html

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Sorry this took so long to get out, I had a few things to attend to when I got home, and then I forgot about it, and just remembered :)! Here it is though:

http://www.salon.com/1999/11/04/mann_2/

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.