“The Insider” A gritty social drama that captures the moment when journalism is in retreat.

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Mike Wallace, played by Christopher Plummer (note: Wallace in the subtitles, but commonly spelled Wallace), is a well-known American newscaster and has had a career spanning about 70 years. In the 1930s and 1940s, he was a newscaster and script writer for a Michigan radio station, and in the late 1940s he became a CBS radio announcer and The Game show host. He has also appeared in commercials for Philip Morris cigarettes and Parliament. When he entered the television era, he also participated in interview programs, and from 1968 he became the first correspondent for CBS's flagship news program ``60 Minutes'', and was involved with this program until 2008.

The show's producer, Lowell Bergman, went on to produce for ABC News and CBS' ``60 Minutes,'' leaving the latter program in 1998. He previously worked for the New York Times and taught at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize.

The CBS program ``60 Minutes,'' in which Wallace and Bergman participated, aired from 1968 to 2008 and gained popularity as a hard-core news program. However, in response to pressure from the tobacco industry, an edited version of Weigand's interview was aired, with the accuser's face erased and the audio changed. It was November 22, 1995. The original version was released 75 days later, on February 4, 1996.

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TBS had the rights to broadcast ``60 Minutes'' in Japan, and it was aired under the title ``CBS Document'' from October 1988 to March 2010, after which it was aired on TBS News Bird as its successor program ``CBS 60 Minutes''. ' and lasted from April 2010 to March 2014. The episode in which Weigand appeared was also aired in Japan on March 31, 1996. The theatrical program for ``The Insider'' includes a testimony from Peter Barakan, who was the program's anchor, so if you extract it...

“It was in 1996 that I saw a video of Jeffrey Weigand accusing tobacco companies.As the movie shows, he was responding to an interview with Mike Wallace.A few weeks before that, Wallace had spoken on the air. There was an indictment video like this, but CBS could be sued by the tobacco company if it were aired, so the higher-ups at CBS told them they couldn't air it.The higher-ups at the company He openly talked about the discrepancies between the judgments of the department and those on the ground.I thought this was unprecedented.I also thought it was uncharacteristic of CBS to be so reticent.(Omitted)I watched the accusation video. At the time, I was exaggerating when I said ``I did it!'', but I was glad that I was able to broadcast it.''

The drama depicts the intense conflict between the upper management of CBS and those involved with ``60 Minutes,'' and is a major highlight of the drama. Jeffrey Weigand, who appeared as a whistleblower on this program, is from New York.In 1989, he joined Brown & Williamson, a tobacco company in Louisville, Kentucky, which boasted the third largest sales in the United States, and became vice president of research and development. He became president, but was fired in 1993.

He then became a teacher at DuPont Manual Magnet High School and was named Kentucky Teacher of the Year in 1996. He has also given lectures in countries such as Canada, France, Germany, Scotland, and Japan. Although Wigand and Russell Crowe don't look alike, their facial expressions when appearing on the show resemble him, and it's clear that Crowe researched his role.

A time when TV and newspaper reports were shining