Shattered Glass Themes

The film Shattered Glass directed by Billy Ray was an intriguing film for today’s world as it shows that the events in Shattered Glass play a big role in today’s world on how it relates to fake news as a potential marketing tool, political tool, or bureaucratic tool. In the film Shattered Glass Stephen Glass, was an infamous writer who turned out to have fabricated most of his articles. More often than not, Stephen Glass made his articles up with observations, random settings, and characters. Shattered Glass was a tale that contributed many different themes from ambition and loyalty to betrayal and deceit. Glass was portrayed as a very talented liar, and also being a sociopath with having two different personalities. The film shows how certain
individuals will go as far as they need to, to climb the mountain to be at the top weather it’s their article or it being fabricated. The movie presented Glass as a masterful fabulist who convicted himself with the ultimate lie, which was there can’t be anything wrong with telling people what they want to hear.
The movie portrays many life values that we have witnessed in today’s word with fake news being a potential marketing tool. Fake news has been a problem for many years now because journalists are pressured into creating and illustrating exciting topics that will draw us readers into reading. Fake news can also be a big marketing tool because even though its fake and unreliable it can make a person think it’s interesting. The way modern media and journalist are portrayed are by one another feeding of information from a source, person, or from even real life examples like breaking news trying to create juicy exciting entry. Stephen Glass was a prime example to how fake news was used as a marketing tool. Stephen was a writer for the New Republic who played sweet and innocent claiming fame for articles in which that were not his. For instance, have you ever noticed how when a breaking news report would first come out it would sound normal and legit. As the day progresses, new information is processed from one another sources as journalist begin writing what they
herd. This shows how it has a connection to the movie, because it portrays many journalist companies with different information making it hard to believe what is being said and made up. This was a good example because, Glass would fabricate his journal entries and stories with made up characters and stories to climb to the top as a young twenty-five-year-old believing that he wouldn’t be caught. What this has to do with fake news being used as a marketing tool is that it shows that in this day and age anyone would say anything just to make an interesting story to draw the readers eye instead of making it truthful and blain. All and all, fake news is still a major role in today’s world especially back then, while also having many corresponding effects from the movie.