I didn't sympathize with Van Doren much. People do have the power to make positive and negative choices. There was no ethical structure for quiz shows when they started out. Fortune Glasse, CC '98. Annette Insdorf , panelist and chairwoman, Film Division, School of the Arts.
Real history is in the books, in the newspapers.
Quiz Show' is really an interpretation. Marc Matthiensen, SIPA '95. I am pretty cynical about the panel's discussion. It was a Hollywood movie, and they mention the fact that the movie took a lot of liberties with the truth. The movie portrayed Charles Van Doren with more integrity than he had, for instance.