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Stephen Glass Shattered Glass
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This was the best movie ever. I just have to say that. It almost boggles the mind exactly how in depth the journalistic verification process goes in an effort to bring the public true information; the amount of editors it takes, how many revisions the writer makes and the number of times each article is read and reread before print. There were many reasons why Stephen Glass was able to get away with his falsified articles and made up sources. The movies gives us the reason that he was “entertaining” as Chuck put it and everyone just liked him and chose to believe that he wrote good, legit stories. That was biases on all the editors and peer writers’ part. The reason he got through the source screen process was because he

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