The Insider. .The Insider (Touchstone, 1999). This time out Al Pacino is the crusading producer (Lowell Bergman) and Russell Crowe the whistle-blowing whistle-blowing, exposure of fraud and abuse by an employee. The federal law that legitimated the concept of the whistle-blower, the False Claims Act (1863, revised 1986), was created to combat fraud by suppliers to the federal government during the Civil War. employee (Jeffrey Wigand) in Michael Mann's polished muckraker muckraker Any of a group of U.S. writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé literature. The term, first used derisively, originated in an allusion Theodore Roosevelt made in 1906 to a passage in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress about a man with a muckrake about corporate corruption and cover-up in the tobacco and media industries. When Brown and Williamson bigwigs get a whiff Verb 1. get a whiff - smell strongly and intensely get a noseful smell - inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense that chemist Wigand might leak news of increased nicotine levels in their product they move to muzzle him with a confidentiality agreement But 60 Minutes producer Bergman gets Wigand to tell all to Mike Wallace. CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. executives pull the show and the rug out from Wigand, however, leaving him exposed to a torrent of suits and slurs. Now the question is whether Bergman can get anybody to bow away the smoke of this double cover-up. *** |
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