Several years before the "Blair Affair" rocked the
New York Times to its venerable foundations, there was the case of Stephen Glass, one-time associate editor at the
New Republic and a contributing writer to publications as varied as
Harper's,
George and
Rolling Stone. Like Jayson Blair, Glass had also been caught cooking stories, but his fall from grace at
TNR, a political weekly that proudly claims to be "the in-flight magazine of Air Force One," was even more spectacular. Based on Buzz Bissinger's 1998 article for
Vanity Fair magazine, this brisk, brilliantly told version of events is framed by Glass's (Hayden Chri...
Released:
2003
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
103 mins