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Back in high school, I was in a journalism class and we watched the movie Shattered Glass. The movie was about a journalist named Stephen Glass and he has made a name for himself throughout his articles as a reporter at The New Republic. However, one of the reporters from Forbes accused Glass of giving the people a false story due to Glass not able to give reliable sources. After being accused Glass admitted that he wasn't at the hacker convention but used other sources to make his story being told in the first person. At the end of the movie, Glass confessed that 27 of 41 of his articles were falsely based and made up. On Tomato Rotten, one of the critics said "Does a superb job in presenting four of the five journalistic 'Ws' of its story: the who, what, where and when. It fails, however, on the essential 'why' of the tale." This shows that the movie was mostly accurate when making a news article.









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