Success in life is not attainable without hardwork and determination. Stephen Glass achieved success but was ruined by just one article he wrote. Stephen was one of the journalist of The New Republic. He was one of the best writers of the company that led them to be one of the leading magazines in US. His editor and co-writers always praise him for his entertaining articles and this articles were published on the headlines of the New Republic magazines. Stephen's creative mind were just amazing making 41 articles for the company but too much of everything is bad. One of his article entitled Hack Heaven was read by their competitor The Forbes magazine and made an content analysis of his article. They found out that the persons in his article were unidentifiable and suspicious. The editor of the Forbes magazine called Chuck, the editor of the New Republic magazine, to tell their investigation to Stephen's article. This was the turning point of Stephen's career because Chuck made Stephen to tell the truth and he was very disappointed knowing that Stephen's article, Hack Heaven, was partially fabricated. It was very hard for Chuck to let go Stephen but by his unethical work, he fired Stephen for the sake of the Company. The investigation of his articles stated that 27 out of 41 articles were partially fabricated.
As a media practitioner, knowing your ethics in media or for Stephen, ethics in journalism, is a must.Giving not factual information is not a work of a journalist. This movie will be a reminder for media practitioners to their media ethics. Success is achievable with hardwork and dignity without this your road to success would be hard and rough. |