Hack Heaven Analysis

The New Republic is a journalist magazine that is mainly built of the writers Stephen, Catlin, Amy, Chuck, and Michael. Chuck gets a late night call from Marty to take Michael’s job, but Chuck did not seem to care because this could be an opportunity to take the company to a whole new level, although he did have some doubts at the beginning. The main goal of the publication magazine is being able to back all of their information up with reliable and truthful facts, they follow that by fact checking every article a writer begins to work on. The process of fact checking is questioned when an online hacker publication called Forbes Digital could not find any reliable information on the sources that are used in an article called, “Hack Heaven” by Stephen Glass. Stephen Glass then proceeds to try and invent the sources in this
Stephen cares too much about what his peers and family think of him that he has to constantly get approval of their feelings, “Are you mad at me?”(Shattered Glass). Stephen feels like if he does not get approval for the decisions he makes then the people in his life will not accept him or love him anymore. Stephen’s childhood and family was very strict and particular on being successful in a “worthy career” which was not journaling according to his parents. His fellow peers and the major editors at the The New Republic look forward to Stephen’s obnoxious story interviews every week and that feeds into the idea that creating fabricated articles are okay as long as they love it. Stephen being an adult definitely knows wrong from right and the lies in his articles can not be brought onto anybody but himself. The people that work with him somewhat play a role in his lying as far as entertaining the idea of his stories that they do not know are