Shattered Glass

The movie Shattered Glass was pretty good and also dealt with the unethical issue of honesty. Stephen Glass, a reporter to The New Republic, wrote an article on hacking. I did not get to finish the movie but I assume he gets caught for not writing a truthful article. I the beginning of the film, I kind of liked Stephen Glass, even though he was kind of nerdy, he had a way to relate to people. His coworkers seemed to like him as well. When he was pitching his story about the hackers, he was really funny and everyone seemed to like his article. Towards the end he kind of his pitch, he sat back and tried to be modest. It’s not that good, I’m just going to toss it, he says. After he writes the article, another magazine gets a hold of it and questions the sources and if the story is even true. Stephen Glass makes up this huge lie and even resorts to making fake business cards and websites to make his story look legitimate. I do not think it would have been that bad is Stephen just admitted the story was false but it was unethical for him to create this big lie. His boss, Chuck also had to deal with the issue. Chuck was kind of in a weird position because his job is to back up his journalist, Stephen Glass, and make The New Republic look good, but then again he was also presented with the fact that Stephen make wrote a fictitious story and claimed it was true.