The true story of Stephen Glass, a deceptive Washington, D.C. journalist who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his twenties, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for three years. Glass concocted sources, quotes, and even entire stories to gain fame, but his deception did not go unnoticed for long, and his world eventually came crashing down around him.
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The true story of Stephen Glass, a deceptive Washington, D.C. journalist who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his twenties, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for three years. Glass concocted sources, quotes, and even entire stories to gain fame, but his deception did not go unnoticed for long, and his world eventually came crashing down around him.
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