Shattered Glass opens with the main character, Stephen Glass talking about being a journalist, “It’s true, Journalism is hard work, everybody’s under pressure, everybody’s grinding to get the issue out. Nobody’s getting any sleep, but you are allowed to smile every once in awhile.” The movie goes from that scene into Glass going back to his high school journalism class where he shares he now works for The New Republic. After writing a story on young Republicans at a Conservative conference, Glass admits to “making assumptions” in his story but promises the rest is all accurate. As the movie goes on, Glass writes a story about a teenage hacker that is published in The New Republic and many people become skeptical. After not being able to provide any sources Glass admits he wasn’t at the hacker convention. However, his just suspended him and Glass was told once again to only report the truth from now on. It wasn’t long after that when his boss, Chuck found out from a fellow writer than Glass has a brother from Palo Alto who must have pretended to be the hacker. Glass is fired from The New Republic. A receptionist makes a great point when she said “Pictures would have prevented this. You can’t make up fake characters if you have pictures of them.” Which is a very interesting point. The movie then ends with Glass sitting with his lawyer while his past employer reads off a list of his titles asking Glass to speak up if any those stories weren’t fabricated. Silence. Glass admitted that 27 of his 41 stories were at least partially or all made up. While watching Shattered Glass, I thought of Janet Cooke the whole time, the journalist who lied about a child drug addict that we learned about.