Jeffrey Wigand

Jeffrey Wigand's 1996 Interview With "60 Minutes"

Topics: 
Whistleblowers, Jeffrey Wigand, Tobacco industry, Videos
Rating: 
3

The CBS program "60 Minutes" re-broadcast its historic interview with tobacco-industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand. This is the famous 1996 interview that was cancelled by CBS when it caved in to legal threats from the industry.

Ironically, this action – suppression of an important public interest story – made headlines when exposed by the print media, and some months later CBS broadcast the interview.

Big Tobacco's nightmare

Topics: 
Jeffrey Wigand, Tobacco industry, New Zealand, Legal ethics
Rating: 
0
Jeffrey Wigand
Tobacco marketing specifically preys on children for future sales growth and more recognise the Camel mascot than Ronald McDonald, says Jeffrey Wigand.

By Anthony Hubbard - June 20, 2010

Jeffrey Wigand, the tobacco industry whistleblower made famous when portrayed by Russell Crowe in the movie The Insider, is coming to New Zealand in a coup for the anti-smoking lobby. He gives a preview of his powerful message.

HE IS one of the most famous whistleblowers in the world, but his face is relatively unknown. Jeffrey Wigand, the scientist who revealed Big Tobacco's dirtiest secrets and found a bullet in his letterbox, says he's "an ugly old man with white hair". But the world knows him as the fattened-up but still handsome Russell Crowe in a celebrated film.

Subscribe to Jeffrey Wigand