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Butting In : Big Tobacco Meets Big Media

Summary: An alarming investigation that exposes the corporate interests running TV news in the United States. Journalist Linden MacIntyre presents the true story behind the movie The Insider which dramatized 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace and Diane Sawyer's fight to broadcast whistleblower Dr. Jeffrey Wigand's story. Journalists, lawyers, tobacco industry experts and TV executives take sides in a story that questions journalistic values and ethics. This program pursues the truth behind the shocking stories that shook the foundations of Big Tobacco. Find out how two big US networks were cowed into capitulation and submission..

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  • Physical Description: 1 streaming video (48 min 38 sec)
    remote
    videorecording
    electronic
  • Publisher: Toronto : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1999

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Restrictions on Access Note:
Access restricted to Curio.ca subscribers
Participant or Performer Note: Journalist: MacIntyre, Linden.
System Details Note:
Available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://curio.ca/en/video/butting-in-big-tobacco-meets-big-media-975/
Language Note:
In English.
Source of Description Note:
Source of description from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Subject: Television broadcasting of news -- United States
Broadcast journalism -- United States
Tobacco industry -- Public relations -- United States
Mass media and business -- United States
Television -- Study and teaching
Mass media -- Study and teaching
Journalism -- Study and teaching
Social sciences
Social justice -- Study and teaching

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