For our journalism class, we've been watching the movie Shattered Glass. It's good so far and I'm looking forward to watching the end of it this afternoon. Our professor wanted each of us to comment on the movie and its moral implications.
Right now the main character, Stephen Glass, is in a bit of a crunch because the very popular article he published for this fictional big time newspaper - the New Republic - is not passing inspection. Many of the facts for this article can only be backed by his notes. And the website addresses and phone numbers don't seem to be legit either. Even though the character is distressed by this, I'm hard put to believe him because of his personality. He knows how to work the crowd and how to flatter people to get what he wants. He's a total brown-noser. Meanwhile, in the background he's maintaining friendships with people from competing newspapers and pretending like he is not or that it is not important.
Thus, it looks like Mr. Glass faked the entire article. Heck, he could have even faked his boss out when he called to check on a company and pretended to be the head of this company. He could be making it all up! It's very possible.
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