NEWS 409 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Journalistic Scandal, Young Republicans, Stephen Glass
15 Mar 2019
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Shattered glass: thorough investigation into one man"s journalistic fraud notes. In 1998, stephen glass, a writer for the new republic magazine in the united states, was found to have fabricated some of his stories. Steven glass: journalism is the pursuit of the truth, and i would never encourage you to do anything sneaky or dishonest in pursuit of a story . Glass"s personal charm and apparent thoughtfulness towards everyone in the office does a lot to protect him from scrutiny. Among his friends, there is debate as to how much of glass"s warmth was cultivated, but there is no doubt that it helped further his rise . If there was one aspect of glass"s personality that seemed indisputably genuine, it was this non-stop yearning to please. The movie paints him brilliantly as borderline-weird in a kind of blundering, endearingly dorky way that makes him seem the most unlikely person in the world to craft a massive fraud.
