Shattered Glass

So the video clip we watched about how much TV news we can actually trust really reminded me of a movie I watched in my Jour 1001 class. Shattered Glass is a movie about the reporter Stephen Glass for the New Republic magazine. Stephen Glass was a 25 year old graduate student that published 41 articles. 27 of those 41 articles he had fabricated the facts. For some stories he completely made up people and events. It made me wonder how it took him 3 years to be discovered. However, in magazines the people that do the "fact check" also use the writers notes as fact. So his fabricated notes and articles were seen as fact. The aftermath of where Stephen Glass is now, he wrote a book called The Fabulist and graduated with his law degree. Stephen Glass stated that the movie portrays what happened pretty much the way that it did. It is very interesting to know that he did this for 3 years. Really makes you wonder how much of what we read and see on TV is true, doesn't it.

Here is a link to Hack Heaven. This was the article that people found out Stephen Glass was a Fraud. To cover up his fabricated completely made up story Glass had to create a website, make business cards, and have his brother call his editor pretending to be the CEO of Jukt Micronics a completely made up company.

http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9805/msg00034.html

After the New Republic staff went through Stephen's articles again the only fact they found to be true in Hack Heaven was that Nevada is a state.