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20th Century with Mike Wallace: The Perils of Whistleblowing. Narr. Mike Wallace. The History Channel. A&E Television Networks. 2001.

Accuracy of 'The Insider' and CBS' Reaction to It. Rivera Live. CNBC. 19 Oct. 1999. Transcript.

American Medical Association's Official Website http://www.ama-assn.org

Ansen, David. "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Dark Tales of the Tobacco Wars Light Up the Screen." Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. Newsweek 8 Nov. 1999: 98.

Baehr, Ted. "The Insider." Human Events 19 November 1999: 16.

Bergman, Lowell. "Network Television News: With Fear and Favor." Columbia Journalism Review 39.1 (2000): 50.

Beshkin, Abigail. "The Insider: A Look at Corporate Influence on the News." Columbia News 4 Nov. 1999. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/99/11/corporateInfluence.html

Blowing Smoke. Narr. Mike Wallace. 60 Minutes. CBS. WCBS, New York. 24 Mar. 1996.

Blowing Smoke. Narr. Mike Wallace. 60 Minutes. CBS. WCBS, New York. 24 Mar. 1996. Transcript.

Brady, Terrence J. Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. Pan & Scan Reviews 24 March 2003. http://www.teako170.com/ps16.html

The Brenner Vanity Fair article http://www.mariebrenner.com/content/other_writing.asp#themanwhoknewtoomuch

Brenner, Marie. "The Man Who Knew Too Much." Vanity Fair May 1996: 170-92.

Brookes, Nick. "Film Full of Inaccuracies." USA Today 19 Nov. 1999: 18A. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/46499708.html?FMT=ABS

Brown & Williamson's Official Website http://www.brownandwilliamson.com [Archived]

Carr, Jay. "Heavy-handed 'Insider' a Smart, if Smug, Story." Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. Boston Globe 5 Nov. 1999: D6.

CBS Being Criticized For Not Running Tobacco Industry Story on '60 Minutes' in its Entirety. CBS Evening News. CBS. WCBS, New York. 10 Nov. 1995. Transcript.

Center for Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/

Cigarettes. Narr. Mike Wallace. 60 Minutes. CBS. WCBS, New York. 12 Nov. 1995.

Clark, Mike. "'The Insider' Masterfully Lifts the Smoke Screen." Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. Life 5 Nov. 1999: 1E.

Cohen, Richard H. "Saving the Press from Itself." Nation 12 May 1997: 11.

Corliss, Richard. "Deep Throat Takes Center Stage." Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. Time 1 Nov. 1999: 98.

Cunneen, Joseph. "Power and Faith." Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. National Catholic Reporter 3 Dec. 1999: 17.

Denby, David. "The Odd Couple." New Yorker 8 November 1999: 102-4.

Derthick, Martha A. Up in Smoke: From Legislation to Litigation in Tobacco Politics. Washington: CQ Press, 2002.

Douglas, Clifford. "Hollywood Hails a Tobacco Whistleblower." Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. British Medical Journal 4 Dec. 1999: 1508.

Dzenis, Anna. "Michael Mann." Sense if Cinema. http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/mann.html

Enrich, David. "Jeffrey Wigand: The Insider Who Blew Smoke at Big Tobacco." U.S. News & World Report 20 Aug. 2001: 70.

The Films of Michael Mann. Dir. Robert J. Emery and Milt Fensen. New York: Winstar Productions, 2001.

Foreman, Jonathan. "Putting Their Ashes on the Line: 'The Insider' A Stylish Tale of Heroism and Betrayal in the Battle against Big Tobacco." Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. New York Post 5 Nov. 1999: 52.

Frontline: Smoke in the Eye http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/

Gladstone, Brook. "CBS Set to Pay All Legal Costs for Story Source Wigand." All Things Considered. National Public Radio. 21 Nov. 1995. Transcript.

Gleick, Elizabeth. "Tobacco Blues; the tobacco industry has never lost a lawsuit; but a new billion-dollar legal assault, and a high-ranking defector, may change that." Time 11 March 1996: 54-58.

Gleick, Elizabeth. "Where there's smoke . . . Jeffrey Wigand is making incendiary charges about the tobacco industry, which is out to burn him." Time 12 Feb. 1996: 54.

Goodale, James C. "Has the Press Lost Its Nerve?" Nieman Reports 51.2 (1997): 18.

The Grossman Columbia Journalism Review article http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/99/6/insider-review.asp

Grossman, Lawrence. "CBS, 60 Minutes, and the Unseen Interview." Columbia Journalism Review 34.5 (1996): 39-51.

Grossman, Lawrence. "The Insider: It's Only a Movie." Columbia Journalism Review 38.4 (1999): 60-62.

Harris, Richard. "Former V.P. Testifies Against Huge Tobacco Company." Morning Edition. National Public Radio. 8 Feb. 1996. Transcript.

Hewitt, Don. "Insider Views The Insider." Columbia Journalism Review 39.2 (2000): 8. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_200007/ai_n8910890

The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture http://www.ijpc.org/

The Insider: The Truth behind the Feature Film http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/insider/

Jeffrey Wigand Discusses Tobacco Industry. This Week. ABC. WABC, New York. 17 Oct. 1999. Transcript.

Jeffrey Wigand's Official Website http://www.jeffreywigand.com

Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D. Narr. Mike Wallace. 60 Minutes. CBS. WCBS, New York. 4 Feb. 1996.

Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D. Narr. Mike Wallace. 60 Minutes. CBS. WCBS, New York. 4 Feb. 1996. Transcript.

Jenkins, Holman W., Jr. "Forget the Movie and TV Show. I'll Wait for the Book." Junk Science.com. http://www.junkscience.com/nov99/jenkins.htm

Johnson, Brian D. "The Man Who Knew Too Much." Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. Maclean's 8 Nov. 1999: 86.

Kandel, Myron. "Brown & Williamson Charged with Spying on Investigators." Inside Business. CNN. 10 Feb. 1996. Transcript.

Kandel, Myron. "Legal Challenge to Tobacco Companies Intensifies." Inside Business. CNN. 2 Dec. 1995. Transcript.

Kluger, Richard. Ashes to Ashes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

Kurtz, Howard, Bernard Kalb, and Carl Rochelle. "Lowell Bergman Talks About 'The Insider.'" CNN Reliable Sources. CNN. 20 Nov. 1999. Transcript.

Lacayo, Richard. "Truth and Consequences." Time 1 Nov. 1999: 18.

Legacy Tobacco Documents Library http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/

Levant, Ezra. "Certain Events Have Been Fictionalized." National Post Online 14 Dec. 1999. http://193.78.190.200/10/np4.htm [Archived]

Maslin, Janet. "Mournful Echoes of a Whistle-Blower." Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. New York Times 5 Nov. 1999: E1.

Maximum Russell Crowe http://www.maximumcrowe.net/

McCarty, John. "Michael Mann." Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Lu-Mi/Mann-Michael.html

McGowan, Richard. Business, Politics, and Cigarettes: Multiple Levels, Multiple Agendas. London: Quorum Books, 1995.

McGuigan, Cathleen. "Mann Is in the Details." Time 8 Nov. 1999: 98.

Miller, Mark Crispin. "Censorship Inc." Free Inquiry 20.2 (2000): 11.

Milloy, Steven. "'The Insider': Whistleblowing or Sucking Air?" Junk Science.com. http://www.junkscience.com/nov99/insider.htm

More Evidence That Tobacco Companies, Specifically Brown & Williamson, Have Tampered With the Levels of Nicotine in Tobacco and Then Lied About It. CBS Evening News. CBS. WCBS, New York. 12 Dec. 1997. Transcript.

Open Directory http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/

Osborne, D.M. "Real to Reel." Brill's Content July/August 1999: 75-80.

Paller, Jack. "Smoke Screen: Tobacco May Be Evil, But Its Latest Challenger Is No Hero." FORCES International. http://www.forces.org/articles/files/hero2.htm

Parks, Louis B. "Heroism at Forefront of 'Insider'.'' Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. Houston Chronicle 5 Nov. 1999: 7.

Rainer, Peter. "Nicotine Fit." Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. The New York Observer. http://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/reviews/1479/

Read, Melvyn D. The Politics of Tobacco: Policy Networks and the Cigarette Industry. Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1996.

Roffman, Peter, and Beverly Simpson. "Big Businessmen in American Cinema." The Political Companion to American Film. Ed. Gary Crowdus. Chicago: Lakeview Press, 1994. 34-40.

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Secrets Through The Smoke. Dir. Jeremy London. Center for Disease Control & Prevention, 2001.

Selections from the Tobacco BBS http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/filmnotes/tobacco-timeline.html

Shepard, Alicia C. "Fighting Back." American Journalism Review 18.1 (1996): 34-44.

Simon, John. "Truth Up in Smoke." National Review 6 Dec. 1999: 71.

Smoke in the Eye. Narr. Daniel Schorr. Frontline. PBS. WGBH Educational Foundation, 1996.

Starr, Paul. "What You Need to Beat Goliath." American Prospect 20 Dec. 1999: 7.

Stein, Nicholas. "Hollywood Two-Step." Columbia Journalism Review 37.4 (1998): 12.

Stepp, Carl Sessions. "Film Dour." American Journalism Review 22.1 (2000): 56.

Sterrit, David. "The Scoop: 'Insider' Delivers Great Drama." Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. Christian Science Monitor 5 Nov. 1999: 15.

Strickler, Jeff. "Kickin' ash." Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. Star Tribune 5 Nov. 1999: 35.

Taylor, Peter. The Smoke Ring: Tobacco, Money, and Multinational Politics. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.

Thoret, Jean-Baptiste. "The Aquarium Syndrome: On the Films of Michael Mann." Trans. Anna Dzenis. Simulacres 2000: 72-85.

Tobacco Documents Online http://www.tobaccodocuments.org

Tobacco Free Kids http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/

Travers, Peter. "The Insider." Rolling Stone 25 Nov. 1999: 111-12.

Weir, David. "Not just blowing smoke." Salon Movie Interview 5 Nov. 1999. http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/int/1999/11/05/bergman

Whelan, Elizabeth M. A Smoking Gun: How the Tobacco Industry Gets Away with Murder. Philadelphia: George F. Stickley Company, 1984.

Williams, Dan. "Looking for a Few Good Heroes." Rev. of The Insider, dir. Michael Mann. Jerusalem Post 24 Jan. 2000: 7.