Vanguard | July 29, 2010 | 8 comments

Vanguard's "Oxy" Scores Emmy Nomination

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Vanguard, airing weekly on Current TV Wednesdays at 10/9c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.

"The OxyContin Express" has been nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Informational Programming--Long Form. The episode also received the 69th Annual George Foster Peabody Award and The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' "Television with a Conscience" award.

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8 comments // Vanguard's "Oxy" Scores Emmy Nomination

  • whatthecuss
  • Matt_Chhuon
  • scorpion528
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      scorpion528  
    • Nominated for what? If you have had Journalism 101 this is a puff piece of tabloid garbage. I am not saying this problem doesn't exist. I am saying that it is poorly done. "Pill related deaths"? is that from all pills or just Oxycontin? any preexisting conditions? Age? No just flat stats to puff it up like a peacock. Who is this kid? What is his drug history,arrest history.I bet ya a dime to a dollar hes a garbage head ( will take rat poison to get high on).His girlfriend died from one pill? one pill of what? Bull garbage I betcha her toxicology report came back with several drugs in her system. This is a fight over real big bucks people and it has nothing to do with abusers, People abuse NyQuil down here they mix it with orange juice. They also boil angel trumpets. They lick frogs to get high. Please Don't forget the cocaine problem that's another great story they have been dragging around since I was a Kid. Don;t you find it suspicious that these problems existed 30-40 yrs ago and still aren't solved. It's about MONEY not people who will kill themselves on anything.The best part of this piece is they state you can get the drugs on every corner, you basically fall over it, but when the kid goes to score he has to get it off some poor old lady i think he gets 3 -4 pills, and by the looks of this guy he stole em from her! Let me take the journalist's narrow view vote on immigration reform and all our problems will go away. I mean if your going to be narrow and peddle it do it all the way. Make immigration the magic bullet to cure America. Poorly done , heavy accents., shame on the Peabody standards.If your legit,don't sell or buy off the streets,this drug is as bad as any drug. I am sick of knee-jerk responses. The irony would be any of these fantastic reporters get their way and god forbid comedown with cancer,spinal injuries, or some horrific disease ,and cannot acquire the drugs they need ( oh yeah they'll just go back to their own countries and leave us holding the bag. maybe chew on your Peabody for the pain management."Television with a Conscience" award" wasn't she driving him around to all the bad clinics who refused to see him ( smirk) while he smoked it in the back of her car? That's television with a conscience! He just told her his girlfriend died from 1 pill and she's letting him smoke 1 pill in her car? Did I miss something let me know.

    • 1 year ago
  • SalvadoreSouza
  • scorpion528
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      scorpion528  
    • SalvadoreSouza:

      wow what a smart person you summed that whole piece of garbhage upmin one sentence. Yeah what ya like about it ? what was it about? ytou likied to see one poor kid make a fool of himself. go try and buy oxycodone on the street, if you can do it the take them and kill yourself.

    • 1 year ago
  • beeek
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