Shattered Glass Wage The Dog

Ethics is about having good morals and values. Being ethical means your honest and truthful. The films Shattered Glass and Wage the Dog told a different story but they both had ethical implications. A common issue was truthfulness. While Shattered Glass was a true story and Wage the Dog was not, they each consist of lies being told to the public. In the film Shattered Glass, Stephan Glass was a young journalist at the New Republic. Glass gave his editors what they wanted because he made his stories interesting and exciting. This as well got him job opportunities. The truth is Glass fabricated his stories and his sources. He gained trust from his coworkers and they stood behind him through the process because Glass manipulated them. A common

Conrad Brean was asked help to cover up this sandal. His idea was to create a fake war thinking this would distract the people. He hired a Hollywood producer, Stanley Motts. Motts get’s a team of people together to help perceive the idea of going to war with Albania. He created a fake commercial showing a scared Albania village girl. This commercial hits the news and gets the publics attention. After a series of setbacks and more fabrications to distract the public, the president finally gets reelected. Stanley Motts wants credit for everything he’s done to help the president to get reelected but he simply several times he was never aloud to speak of this. We see Motts get into a car with agents then the next day in the news report he died in his home with a heart attack. This was once again was a cover up done by Brean. The ethical implication was dishonesty. Lies and sandals were constantly put out in the media to pretty much manipulate the public to believe something else. While the president did win, he did not win

Although Shattered Glass was a true story, I do not believe it is that easy to get away with what Stephan did today. Times have changed and you cannot get away with fabricating sources or even making up stories. The editorial process has become more advanced with stricter rules making it much harder to be dishonest. While Wag the dog is not a true story I believe those events could happen. The government has so much power over the media and if they want to put out a sandal to hid the real problem I believe they can. Although it’s wrong, the government can and will always get away with it because of the amount of power they have. Yes, both films have characters being dishonest but Wag the Dog was worse because they took unethical to a whole other level. Stephen Glass was lying to his audience but he did not harm anyone. Conrad Brean along with several others including the president lied to all American people. Who should lead a country is a pretty important and that should not be surrounded with lies. They also had a human being killed over this sandal because it had to stay top secret. Again, Each film had ethical