Chapter 4 reminded me of a movie I had seen a few years back called “Shattered Glass” it was about a reporter named Stephen Glass he was born 1972 and he was an American and a former journalist, known best for serial fraud in his articles. Over a three-year period as a young rising star at The New Republic from 1995 to 1998, he fabricated quotations, sources, and even entire events in articles he wrote for that magazine and others. He was fired when his deceptions came to light. This chapter basically spoke about he did wrong, and how he broke all the rules that journalist follow don’t fabricate stories or facts, don’t deceive the audience, be transparent as possible about your methods and motives, rely on your own original reporting, and exercise humility. This in my opinion is a bad journalism what Stephen Glass did but again he added things to stories that did not happen or he completely made up a story. This leads to the second point in chapter 4 do not deceive the public counts on the news to know what is happening around them, sometimes around the world what if we were under attack by another country we would not know until missile blows up half the country. Transparency to me is the most important thing to posses when you write. If people can’t understand what you write, it won’t matter if it is true or false. Transparency can mean the difference between a really good story and a bad one; sometimes it makes a bad story good. It can help get the “message” across to the reader how this is done is up the reporter.
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