Stephen Glass In The Film Shattered Glass
Who is Stephen Glass? Is he trustworthy and truthful or manipulative and deceitful?
After watching the film Shattered Glass, the viewer is able to grasp a greater
understanding of the central character in this film, Stephen Glass, and answer this
question once and for all. Glass is considered an extremely kind, unique,
manipulative, and, overall, interesting character. In the beginning of the movie, his
coworkers in the office fall in love with him, making him everyone s favorite.
Abruptly, everything goes downhill. Glass finds himself shifting from the New
Republics key to success, to the biggest downfall of the company; all within the
matter of a few days. Although he is extremely likable, he uses his manipulative
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One little mistake ended up exposing him completely, landing him with no job and
no friends who have his back. Stephen Glass published his biggest article yet, Hack
Heaven , where he falsely reported an immense amount of information. He claimed
that he was present at the event taking place regarding a hacker convention, but in
reality he was not. In fact, none of it was true, every single detail he wrote in the
article was fake news. Glass argued that he acquired enough information from other
random sources he came across, leading him to believe nobody would find out if he
had no personal fact to back up the information himself. He made up fake people,
quoted them, referenced different nonexistent companies, and participated in other
unethical actions. Everything began deteriorating when a man named Adam
Penenberg, a writer for another newspaper, dug further into Glass story. Starting as
theories, Penenberg and his co worker Andy Fox built up a case and began
supporting it with facts, finally becoming confident with the fact that Stephen Glass
fabricated the entire piece, Hack Heaven . Facts such as dates and times did not
match up with Glass statements and neither did websites and phone numbers. For
example, Penenberg told Stephen Glass that the website for one of the sources that
he mentioned in his article, Juke Micronics, was not believable. He said, Quite
frankly, it