The movie Shattered Glass was a great movie and an even better movie to show to journalism majors. It helps show the ethical flaws within the journalism field and also shows the consequences if and when you do get caught. Two of the major ethical laws that the main character Steve Glass (real person considering the movie is a real story, makes the story even more eye opening) breaks are lying to his coworkers at the newspaper and fabricating the stories that he wrote in that paper. It seems as if he really DID believe what he was saying, as if he was such a good liar that he had started to believe it himself, but that is no excuse and he should never be able to touch a pen again.
In Hanna Rosin’s story in 2014, in the very newspaper company she and Glass had worked together and according to the paper became best friends at, she had finally talked with him. Personally I do not love this article though. I guess that this is what I shouldve expected though, it was obviously going to be biased and one sided towards defending her old friend Steve. She probably figured that the water had settled and it was time to get some dirt off of Glass’ name. The piece really tries to show the mental issues that seemed present in the movie, he talks about having overwhelming Jewish parents but that it was not them that put the pressure upon himself as much as he had. The internalized need to become normal did not do it’s job. It was supposed to be Steve’s savior, not his downfall.
All in all, I understand that Glass had issues mentally but it is still unacceptable to act the way he did in the field of journalism. The people who read your work depend on you to tell the truth. What you say goes, there is almost no refuting it most of the time. It truly is sad what happened but for sure it is what had to be done.
https://newrepublic.com/article/120145/stephen-glass-new-republic-scandal-still-haunts-his-law-career