Slate Money - Slate Money: Movies: Thank You For Smoking
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies.
Joanne Lipman, author and journalist, joins to talk about the 2005 film Thank You For Smoking. They discuss the terrible trope of female reporters sleeping with their sources, The Marlboro Man, and “moral flexibility.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to the thank you for the thank you for smoking episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies, |
| 0:23.3 | where we watch movies and talk about them. |
| 0:26.7 | We being me, Felix Amin of Axios, and Emily Peck. |
| 0:31.4 | Hello. |
| 0:32.9 | And in this case, an extremely special guest, Joanne Lippman, welcome. |
| 0:39.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:40.1 | Great to be here. |
| 0:41.5 | Joanne, who are you? |
| 0:43.4 | Introduce yourself. |
| 0:45.1 | I am Joanne Lippman. |
| 0:47.0 | I am a journalist and an author. |
| 0:50.0 | And I've been a reporter and an editor and an editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief most recently, |
| 0:56.1 | at USA Today and the USA Today Network. |
| 0:59.1 | And before that, editor-in-chief at Condénais portfolio where I was fortunate enough to work with Felix. |
| 1:05.6 | Where you hired me, or one of your underlings hired me. |
| 1:09.5 | And before that, many years at the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:13.8 | And I'm also an author. |
| 1:15.9 | My most recent book is That's What She Said, which is about how to close the gender |
| 1:21.1 | gap at work. |
| 1:22.3 | So we are going to have a lot of gender politics to talk about in this show. |
| 1:27.4 | There is some problematic |
| 1:29.4 | representation of female journalists in this movie, but there's lots of other stuff going on. |
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