Ryan Stone
3/2/10
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Opinion Piece
Stephen Glass
Stephen Glass was a writer for the “New Republic” a prestigious news magazine in Washington D.C. Glass had become a pretty prestigious writer and had gotten articles published in other prestigious magazines like Rolling Stone. People then figured out in 1998 that the reason his articles were so interesting is because most of them were fabricated. Glass was only 25 when he was caught fabricating stories; needless to say his journalistic career was over.
In 2003 a movie was released about the demise of Stephen Glass called “Shattered Glass”. He also published a book titled “The Fabulist”. He graduated magna cum laude from University of Georgetown Law Center and pass the state bar in New York.
One of the main reasons that Glass was caught in his lies was because of technology. When he was doing the Jukt Micronics story he made up a website for Jukt and the website was not a professional website. The website was made by AOL Members so people knew this wasn’t a real website. The people that he made up for the story could also never be reached because the numbers were made up. The 15 year old that he wrote about in the story could be reached by only e-mail which was no coincidence.
It could also be said that technology allowed Glass to lie. Not to excuse what he did technology just made it easier. It allowed him to be able to cover his tracks by creating e-mails to be the fake people and even create websites to try to cover his tracks. What Glass did was wrong and technology made it easier to do, he probably would have been caught faster in today’s technology.
3/2/10
Masc. 303
Opinion Piece
Stephen Glass
Stephen Glass was a writer for the “New Republic” a prestigious news magazine in Washington D.C. Glass had become a pretty prestigious writer and had gotten articles published in other prestigious magazines like Rolling Stone. People then figured out in 1998 that the reason his articles were so interesting is because most of them were fabricated. Glass was only 25 when he was caught fabricating stories; needless to say his journalistic career was over.
In 2003 a movie was released about the demise of Stephen Glass called “Shattered Glass”. He also published a book titled “The Fabulist”. He graduated magna cum laude from University of Georgetown Law Center and pass the state bar in New York.
One of the main reasons that Glass was caught in his lies was because of technology. When he was doing the Jukt Micronics story he made up a website for Jukt and the website was not a professional website. The website was made by AOL Members so people knew this wasn’t a real website. The people that he made up for the story could also never be reached because the numbers were made up. The 15 year old that he wrote about in the story could be reached by only e-mail which was no coincidence.
It could also be said that technology allowed Glass to lie. Not to excuse what he did technology just made it easier. It allowed him to be able to cover his tracks by creating e-mails to be the fake people and even create websites to try to cover his tracks. What Glass did was wrong and technology made it easier to do, he probably would have been caught faster in today’s technology.
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