In order to get ahead, an ambitious young reporter did not hesitate to fabricate the news. When the truth was revealed, it was like a glass cover smashing, and people realized that there was nothing in the cover. The dazzling scenery that had been seen before was just glass. Unreal image reflected from the surface.
"Shattered Glass", based on real stories, tells about Stephen Glass, a young journalist working for the American current affairs magazine "The New Republic", who is good at writing anecdotes Attracting readers, the reports he wrote are novel and unique, unheard of but full of fun, and become a hot reporter in the industry. It was not until he recently published a report about a juvenile hacker ransomware company that the people exposed by the website reporters were all fictitious. The new editor-in-chief investigated his past articles and found that among the 41 reports that Glass had written for them, they were actually fictitious. 27 articles were fabricated "partially or completely", and Glass had to be fired in order to preserve the magazine's 90-year reputation. Glass later wrote this experience into a novel "Fabulist."
After reading it, I can only marvel that this young man’s liar skills are so good that he doesn’t change his face when lying, and he looks innocent. Or mourn, or pity, or pretend to collapse, or continue to lie...everything. What is even more breathtaking is his far-reaching imagination, people, time, place, events, details, even who sits in which position, who wears what clothes, and what perfume he wears, all of which are convincing. The notebook he gave to the editor-in-chief as a basis for news is simply the outline of a novel.
In fact, he is extremely talented, has a brilliant literary talent, meticulous and meticulous conception, a humorous style, and more importantly, a rich imagination. It's a pity that he got into the wrong line. People with too good imagination should not be reporters. They should go. writing a novel.
People who suffer from lack of imagination like me are extremely envious. How can they have that kind of imagination? It is not easy to just imagine the scenario of a story: sitting in front of a computer, staring at a certain place but not looking, pupils not focusing, wandering, hacker conferences, victim companies forced to hire hackers, hacker managers... …One by one, it automatically jumped into my mind, and it was so exciting. How does it feel?
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