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• After reading an early draft of The Good Shepherd, Michael Mann approached Eric Roth to help write the script.
• Toward the end of the film, Mike Wallace shows Lowell Bergman an unflattering article and editorial about CBS in the latest New York Times. The article and editorial are clearly from different sections of the paper. This would seem to be a goof, since the Times' op-ed pieces usually appear in the back of the main news section. The real-life pieces to which this scene refers, however, were published on a Sunday (12 November 1995), which means that the news and editorials would in fact have appeared in separate sections, just one more example of director Michael Mann's eye for detail.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): During the scene where the tobacco company is trying to smear Wigand, the television reporter says that "WLKO in Louisville" had discovered something on him. There is no such television station in Louisville (though, there is a WLKY).
• Jeffrey Wigand, the anti-smoking subject of this movie, requested a ban on cigarettes in the film. However, cigarettes are smoked in the movie at least twice: 1) by a woman in the background as Wigand enters the airport, shortly before served with a restraining order, and 2) a Muslim soldier seen briefly while Bergman is being transported to the Hezbollah meeting site.