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The hosts of the Hit Factory podcast return to Junk Filter for a discussion of the 2003 drama Shattered Glass, the directorial debut of screenwriter Billy Ray, starring Hayden Christensen and Peter Sarsgaard. It’s a great adaptation of the rise and fall of The New Republic's hotshot journalist Stephen Glass, who was exposed as a serial fabulist through the rigorous fact-checking of a competitive news outlet and then the magazine’s new editor, Charles Lane.

We discuss Shattered Glass as an underrated and compelling drama about ethics in journalism, how it serves as a distant early warning of a problem in media that’s only gotten worse, and how the film portrays how white collar sociopaths operate in the workplace and how to successfully confront one.

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