"The journalist has a commitment to the citizens, so their primary obligation to seek the truth." "It's very difficult for information to be completely objective, but what is essential is that it is true." "If you lie even if only in the color of the eyes, the value of information and greatly diminished credibility of the journalist."
case I am talking about happened in 1998. The prestigious U.S. magazine The New Republic fired in May of that year the journalist Stephen Glass after uncovering a huge scandal magnitude. Glass was discovered after committing several cases of journalistic fraud, specifically in 27 of its 41 articles or works, in which the vast majority of the data was the invention of its author. Article which led to the discovery called Paradise Hacker, involving an alleged teenage hacker, who was hired to work in a large company having entered into their systems by exposing security weaknesses. It is noteworthy that at the time of starting the shooting on digital journalism, was exactly half
digital Forbes.com, who uncover the big lie of Stephen Glass, by reporter Adam Penenberg mainly. The case was later made into a film in 2003 with the film The Shattered , starring Hayden Christensen . Check out the video of the movie with music.