Shattered Glass (film)

Shattered Glass is a 2003 AmericanCanadian drama film written and directed by Billy Ray. The screenplay is based on a September 1998 Vanity Fair article by H. G. Bissinger. In it he chronicled the rapid rise of Stephen Glass journalistic career at The New Republic during the mid1990s and his steep fall when his widespread journalistic fraud was exposed.

Stephen Glass is a reporter at The New Republic, where he has made a name for himself for writing colorful stories. His editor, Michael Kelly, is revered by the magazines young staff. When David Keene at the time Chairman of the American Conservative Union questions Glass description of minibars and the drunken antics of Young Republicans at a convention, Kelly backs his reporter when Glass admits to one mistake but says the rest is true.Kelly is fired after he stands up to his boss Marty Peretz on an unrelated personnel issue, and fellow writer Charles Chuck Lane is promoted to replace him. Glass publishes an entertaining story titled Hack Heaven about a teenage hacker named Ian Restil who was given a lucrative job at software company Jukt Micronics after hacking into their computer system. After the article is published, Adam Penenberg, a reporter at Forbes Digital Tool, begins researching the story in order to discover how Glass scooped them. Penenberg is unable to uncover any corroborating evidence for Glass story and brings his concerns to The New Republic. ........

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