Shattered Glass

Shattered Glass

  • Submitted By: apharris
  • Date Submitted: 03/18/2009 12:27 PM
  • Category: English
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Shattered Glass In the movie Shattered Glass, is the story of Stephen Glass the famous journalist who fabricated many stories that were published in the New Republic magazine. Stephen Glass was able to get away with fabrication for a large amount of time. I think that Stephen was able to get away with it for so long, because he always came up with some evidence of why what he did was not wrong. He always seemed to be able to slip away from the office long enough to come up with evidence. No one ever seemed to notice that this was his routine that he abided by every time. Journalists are usually good judges of character, but Stephen had everyone in his office fooled. Stephen showed some signs that he lacked in honesty and integrity. For instance, anytime during the movie, when anybody asked him a question he would ask if they were mad at him. He also always asked if he had done something wrong. His colleagues should have realized that he was being so defensive, because he was hiding something. When Stephens editor Michael Kelly calls him in and questions him about a story that he wrote about the CPAC Convention, is when we first notice suspicion. Kelly let Stephens mistake slide, but he still seemed suspicious. Once Charles Lane took Kelly’s place, we start to see much more suspicion. Stephen said that it was just because Chuck had always hated him, and that’s why he was suspicious. But, the real suspicion comes out when Stephen writes the story “Hackers Heaven.” A Forbes.com reporter was the one who discovered that Stephens’ sources in “Hackers Heaven” were not legitimate. This reporter did all the research and realized that none of Stephen’s sources were accurate. Stephen began to panic, and began making fake websites and business cards. This is when we realize that Stephen has been tricking everyone around him. We see that Stephen does not have the morals that he expects everyone around him to have. He has composed an image for himself that he has very strong...

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