Are You Mad at Me? A Shattered Glass Podcast
Two longtime political journalists, Erica C. Barnett and Josh Feit, do a monthly deep dive on the 2003 movie Shattered Glass, about the first major journalism scandal of the digital age. Stephen Glass, who worked at The New Republic between 1995 and 1998, fully or partially fabricated dozens of stories for TNR and other publications. He was fired after a reporter for an upstart online publication, Forbes Digital Tool, exposed him. The movie is a low-budget classic, featuring outstanding performances from Peter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny, Melanie Lynskey, Hayden Christensen, and Steve Zahn.
Are You Mad at Me? A Shattered Glass Podcast
Shattered Glass vs. Ordinary People, Featuring Tom Nissley
This month's special guest is Phinney Books owner, Jeopardy! champ, and All the President's Men superfan Tom Nissley, who witnessed the birth of our Shattered Glass obsession (and slept through a little of it.) Tom—who went to high school with Josh in Bethesda—has some theories, and they involve the movie Ordinary People, which we all watched this week (Tom dug it, Josh cried, and Erica rolled her eyes).
Is Shattered Glass just a mashup between All the Presidents' Men and Ordinary People? Is Stephen Glass a more sympathetic character than we realized? And what does Hayden Christensen have to do with Henry Winkler in Night Shift?
Listen to hear us discuss those theories and more... plus a shocking revelation at the 13:50 mark!
Quotes:
"What I'm going to do is this. I'm going to read to you a list of suspicious titles, one by one. If you raise an objection to a particular title, we'll fact-check it again in the hope of removing it from the list. If you remain silent, we'll assume that piece is fabricated, either partially or entirely, and it will stay on."
"You don't know how things go where I grew up, Caitlin. There are rules there. If your son's not a doctor or a lawyer, you keep your curtains closed."
"You're writing for The New-fucking-Republic. Isn't that good enough?"
"Not in Highland Park."
"I mean, if you can get Rosario Dawson in your movie..."
Hosts: Josh Feit and Erica C. Barnett
Edited by: Erica C. Barnett