Ethical Issues In Shattered Glass

Stephen Glass: “I didn't do anything wrong!” Chuck Lane: “I really wish you would stop saying that!” Shattered Glass was a movie about a journalist named Stephen Glass would fabricate many articles. Glass had written forty-one articles and twenty-seven of them were fabricated. He was beloved at the New Republic for two reasons. He would always provide intriguing stories they wish they were covering and didn’t rub it in that he got the story and they didn’t. These can be considered factors for why he was able to get away with it for so long. His coworkers love his stories so much that they were entertained whenever they listened to them. People would not think to look more into stories because of how intriguing it was, so if something was wrong with a source it would most likely not be found out.

There are some ethical issues in the

Then the piece goes to a second editor, and the writer revises it again. Then it goes through a fact-check, where every fact in the piece...every date, every title,every place or assertion is checked and verified. Then the piece goes to a copy editor, where it is scrutinized once again.Then it goes to lawyers, who apply their own burdens of proof.Marty looks at it too. He's very concerned with any kind of comment the magazine is making. Then Production takes it and lays it out into column inches and type. Then it goes back on paper, then back to the writer, back to the copy editor, back to editor number one,and editor number two, back to the fact-checker, back to the writer, and back to Production again.Throughout, those lawyers are reading and re-reading, looking for red flags, anything that feels uncorroborated. Once they're satisfied, the pages are reprinted and it all happens again. Every editor, the fact-checkers... they all go through it one last