Good Journalism Movie
In a journalism class this week we watched the movie Shattered Glass.
This movie is the true story of journalist Stephen Glass and his fall from grace while working at The New Republic magazine.
What an excellent movie on the power of choices and ethics in the mass communication field. I vaguely remembered hearing about the reporter when the story first broke back in 1998, but I had no idea it had been this bad.
While the class discussion revolved around how horrible the Glass character was, it finally hit me why he was able to fool his co-workers for so long. They trusted him. They trusted him to do his job and do it right. Maybe that trust was misplaced, maybe it went on for to long, but if a journalist can’t trust another journalist what’s the point.
Read the story of Stephen Glass for yourself on Wikipedia – I found a lot of the article links from other journalists about the scandal enlightening.
Here is the movie trailer