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We weren't the big guys, you know?

The Panama Papers

We weren't thebig guys, you know? We were the ones who tried tobreak stories that the big...

The Panama Papers • 2018

We weren't the
big guys, you know? We were the ones who tried to
break stories that the big guys didn't have. We were the, the
underdogs, to some degree. It was also something that
we had to kind of sell to our company at the time, because
they had decided that they were gonna shut their
foreign bureaus. They were
wondering what value, foreign news would
have to their readers. Why are people gonna care that
the rich don't pay their taxes and crooks are crooks? Everyone knows that. What he didn't understand is
that this was such an enormous amount of data, it
was revealing a, a whole world. It wasn't just a
story about offshores; It was, it was the goods. We had the goods
on how it worked

Full Transcript

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We weren't the big guys, you know?

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We were the ones who tried to break stories that the big guys

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didn't have.

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We were the, the underdogs, to some degree.

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It was also something that we had to kind of sell to our

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company at the time, because they had decided that they were

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gonna shut their foreign bureaus.

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They were wondering what value,

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foreign news would have to their readers.

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Why are people gonna care that the rich don't pay their taxes

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and crooks are crooks?

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Everyone knows that.

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What he didn't understand is that this was such an enormous

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amount of data, it was revealing a,

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a whole world.

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It wasn't just a story about offshores;

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It was, it was the goods.

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We had the goods on how it worked.

Duration

51 seconds

Views

22

Timestamp in Movie

00:15:11

Uploaded

Jun 24, 2025

Genres

Production

Field of Vision,Bungalow Media + Entertainment,Great Point Media

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Movie Summary

A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break the story.