Monday, February 29, 2016
response to shattered glass
OPTION ONE:Glass constantly twists stories, bends the truth and straight up lies to his colleagues and his editors. He entertains his coworkers about the Tyson fight. Glass does this so the coworkers trust him and respect him so nobody suspects anything. When glass goes to visit the high school he talks about "good" editors. He says that editors should do anything for you to help your story. What he doesn't realize is that if your whole story is a fake lie the editor will get in trouble as well for publishing false facts. Glass lives in a false reality where he thinks that he has done nothing wrong and that he needed to make up this story for respect. He thinks that his editor is not being loyal when really he is just doing his job. When Glass is applying to law school that is another clue of why he is not an ideal journalist. He says that the only reason that he is applying is to make his parents happy. This applies in the office too. He does things just to please his editor and not to actually improve his writing. An ideal journalist should be taking the criticism and applying it to their writing and nit fighting it. Glass even almost resigns when somebody finds out one of his lies. Quitting just to cover your lies is definitely not good journalism. Thats just lazy and dumb. Another mistake Glass makes is that he tells an intern that he is not good enough and to not turn in work if it isn't ideal writing. You should always try to get your stories published because that will only make you a stronger writer unlike glass.
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