Sherron watkins, a star witness in the current trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, respectively Enron's former chairman and chief executive, is billed as a whistleblower. "Probably the closest thing to a hero to emerge from the Enron saga," said the Wall Street Journal Ms Watkins fits the public's image of what a whistle-blower should be—female, feisty and ultimately vindicated, a stereotype laid down by Oscar-nominated actresses such as Julia Roberts (in "Erin Brockovich") and Meryl Streep (in "Silkwood"), and reinforced when Ms Watkins was one of three female whistleblowers named as Time magazine's "Persons of the Year" in 2002.
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