Wired Sorry for Faked Story
Wired pull three stories after the author admits to creating a false e-mail address for an article source.
Read this story, I almostly recalled the plot of Shattered Glass, a true story of 2003 film about young reporter who make more than half of the story he wrote for the magazine he work are fake. Hayden Christensen played the main role as Stephen Glass, a young and energetic reporters of The New Republic.
This film tells the true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass (Christensen), who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at “The New Republic” for three years (1995-1998), where 27 of his 41 published stories were either partially or completely made up. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down..
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In Glass’, after the previous editor in chief Michael Kelly has been go down, Glass lost his loyal backing. Almost his entire story for the magazine has been approved by Kelly. And the new one, Charles ‘Chuck’ Lane played by Peter Sarsgaard wasn’t believe. Soon after while, the new chief investigating a suspicious connections between the reporters and its sources. And, after self-investigating, they found that many sources is faked, either doesn’t have true address, fake email like the Wired happened, and so they found that fake pieces. (Read also The New Republic profile which including this scandall at Wikipedia).
For the particular story, Wired was apologized for mistakenly fake story. This is really a good action and also a good measurement how media should be report in such good will.
Knowing how the story made, and some are mistaken, either faked by their reporters or misreported, is a quite fascinating for a reader like us. It educates us how to believe a system that has a self-correcting mechanism. It make us believe that, journalism in some respect has a truth. And, that must be.
On April 3, 2003, Michael Kelly, the former Republic editor, just a few weeks following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Kelly’s vehicle was fired upon by Iraqi rebel forces and swerved into a canal, killing Kelly. Chuck Lane now is Washington Post reporter.
Stephen Glass completed his law degree at Georgetown University Law Center after being fired by TNR. In 2003, he began appearing on television to promote his “biographical novel” The Fabulist. “I wanted them to think I was a good journalist, a good person. I wanted them to love the story so they would love me”, he told Steve Kroft of CBS News’ 60 Minutes in an interview. He also used his time on national television to apologize to his ex-coworkers. His detractors, however, suspected these signs of contrition were merely to promote his book and believed Glass still could not be trusted.
Congratulation for the better journalism!
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— Guntar · 14/08/06 04:29 PM · #
Entah bener apa nggak, tampaknya beberapa media ndak ambil pusing dg kebenaran berita. Asalkan berita ybs emg kriuk untuk dikonsumsi publik, ya jadi deh.
Tapi klo di Indonesia, fenomena selebritis reporter/jurnalis tampaknya ndak sampe seheboh klo di luar negeri yach. Mungkin ini malah bagus utk menjaga keakuratan isi berita (??)
— roi · 13/11/07 09:37 AM · #
on the contrary, I like what Glass said in the beginning of the movie…
....journalism is just an art of capturing behavior…