The film Shattered Glass is based off the true story of Stephen Glass, a journalist for the New Republic and how he published fake news stories. Glass published 41 stories in his career and 27 of them were factually false. He was exposed by his editor, Chuck Lane after an online journal discovered Glass’s Hack Heaven story was completely false. Chuck would later fact check all of Glass’s stories to find more false facts. Though all stories were supposed to go through a brutal fact and editor check all of Glass’s false stories were able to pass. He was able to do this because all of his leads, quotes, and sources were written in his notes, and editors accepted notes as facts with no questions asked. These mistakes could have been avoided if