The Insider (Movie Fanfiction)

Can a corporate-insider offer key modern media info that will reveal some 'strange' miracle of journalism-driven detention?

I've gotten a few worrisome comments that it seems my stories/shorts seem like unconnected Internet-strewn imagery-loaded jargon, so I thought I'd offer a sort of society levity with a more 'direct' form of fanfiction (which is really my favorite kind of writing!) which explores applications or references of social dialogue regarding media-citations, inspired by a modern era film about the scope of media-drawn social inquiries regarding customs/ethics and diaries, The Insider (Michael Mann). Hope you find it a worthwhile read (and enjoy!), 

DISCLAIMER: I've no ties to the film inspiring this fanfiction/short and present this as only an adaptation of social dealings, which is actually not my first adaptation of this Mann film, one of my favorite modernism-relevant films (on WritersCafe). 

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Jeffrey packed up his belongings at the workplace and headed out and drove home early in the afternoon to find his wife/daughters playing in the backyard garden of his lush suburban home and shared an early supper with them before having to explain to his distraught wife that he'd been fired for rumored ties to corporate insider-information disclosures leaked to the public for the apparent purposes of health-inquiry. His wife, not realizing the full drama of the decision Jeffrey took in being entangled in such a 'corporate mess' when their life was simply so ideal didn't know truly how to comfort Jeffrey. Nevertheless, this was now a man on a secret underground mission.

At the corporate office of the symbolic American news-TV program 60 Minutes (Mike Wallace), major events were underway to choreograph a seminal interview with a Shah of Iran, and it was occupying everyone's time, including the executive-producer Lowell. While conducting the business-PR details of this seminal interview in Iran, Lowell got a strange call from a random ex-corporate employee, Jeffrey. Lowell was requested to meet with him in private and was told by a somewhat apparently hesitant Jeffrey that he'd been fired for trying to expose information regarding the tobacco industry's use of addictive 'additives' in their consumer market cigarettes.

LOWELL: You sound afraid!

JEFFREY: They should fear me too (ha).

However, this tale didn't take ordinary proportions, as Jeffrey soon received death-threats at his house and was forced to move with his family to a more witness-secured location, thankfully orchestrated by his newfound TV-friend Lowell, who'd become his unofficial 'angel' during this entire interview/informant process for the upcoming broadcast conversation about the corrupted tobacco industry. However, during this anticipatory time, Lowell was told the 'incendiary' nature of this information would make it 'uneasy' for his network to publish the contents of the 'deadly' interview. Lowell, now a man on a mission of his own, was determined to broadcast his Jeffrey-insider interview perhaps even at the cost of his career.

LOWELL: You didn't support me (directly), Mike, but I didn't demand such a duty either, huh?

MIKE WALLACE: You're my friend; my career-peer; I couldn't risk the 'dangers' posed to our beloved network, Lowell!

Lowell, dismayed and distraught, decided to pull a last-ditch effort and contacted a rival TV-network with evidence that Jeffrey, the 'insider' of information for media, and hoped they'd air the recorded interview that 60 Minutes was, in the end, unable to broadcast. The 'scheme' worked to a 'T' and perfection, and Jeffrey's interview, much more 'enhanced' and disclosed, was finally aired! His name was cleared. When Lowell thanked the modern media 'hero' of disclosure, Jeffrey suggested it was worth it, despite having to endure the divorce from his wife who found the ordeal simply intolerable. Lowell suggested in turn to Jeffrey that the 'cost' of media honesty was unfortunately, sometimes, distance.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)