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    Stephen Glass was a former U.S. journalist who fabricated many of his published articles while working at The New Republic in the late 1990s. An investigation revealed that 27 out of 41 of Glass's articles contained fabrications, including invented quotations, sources, and entirely fictional events. This destroyed the trust between journalists and readers. Journalism's primary obligation is to truth, yet journalists sometimes fabricate information due to pressures like tight deadlines, a need to protect their company, or to make their stories more interesting. The case of Stephen Glass highlighted the importance of truth and honesty in journalism.

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    Stephen Glass was a former U.S. journalist who fabricated many of his published articles while working at The New Republic in the late 1990s. An investigation revealed that 27 out of 41 of Glass's articles contained fabrications, including invented quotations, sources, and entirely fictional events. This destroyed the trust between journalists and readers. Journalism's primary obligation is to truth, yet journalists sometimes fabricate information due to pressures like tight deadlines, a need to protect their company, or to make their stories more interesting. The case of Stephen Glass highlighted the importance of truth and honesty in journalism.

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    Truth and Honesty in Journalism: Stephen Glass

    Background:
    Ideally, journalism should strive to tell the absolute truth to the people. However, in
    the application, this ideal often cannot be fulfilled because the circumstances forced
    them into falsehoods. We expect journalists to be unbiased and to report the truth, but
    sometimes, due to surviving their companys prestige and protecting defamation, they
    write on something that is not the real facts. Or sometimes, being in a job that requires
    working under pressure and such a tight deadlines, forced journalists to fake news
    because lacking of reverences and data.

    For example in the case of Stephen Glass. He is a former U.S. journalist who achieved
    notoriety in 1998 when it was revealed that as many as half of his published articles
    were fabrications. Glass invented quotations, sources, and even entire events in
    articles he wrote for that magazine and others. Most of Glass's articles were of the
    entertaining and humorous type; some were based entirely on fictional events. He had
    his career rising at the age of 25 as a journalist and associate editor of The New
    Republic (TNR) in Washington. Readers were at first fascinated by his writings
    because of the interesting topics, but later editors in TNR realized that most of his
    works were product of lies. After the investigation, it was revealed that Glasss works
    were 27 out of 41 full of fabrications, therefore destroying a portion of the alwaysfragile bond of trust journalists try to form with their readers. (ada kutipan sumber).
    Literature Review:

    http://www.journalism.org/resources/principles-of-journalism/
    and
    http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/journalism-essentials/what-isjournalism/elements-journalism/

    Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel identify the essential principles and practices
    of journalism, in their book The Elements of Journalism. There are 10 of them, and
    the first one is: Journalisms first obligation is to the truth.
    In this element, it is explained that:
    Good decision-making depends on people having reliable, accurate
    facts put in a meaningful context. Journalism does not pursue truth in an
    absolute or philosophical sense, but in a capacity that is more down to earth.
    All truths even the laws of science are subject to revision, but we
    operate by them in the meantime because they are necessary and they work,
    Kovach and Rosenstiel write in the book. Journalism, they continue, thus
    seeks a practical and functional form of truth. It is not the truth in the
    absolute or philosophical or scientific sense but rather a pursuit of the truths
    by which we can operate on a day-to-day basis.
    This journalistic truth is a process that begins with the professional
    discipline of assembling and verifying facts. Then journalists try to convey a
    fair and reliable account of their meaning, subject to further investigation.
    Journalists should be as transparent as possible about sources and
    methods so audiences can make their own assessment of the information. Even
    in a world of expanding voices, getting it right is the foundation upon which
    everything else is built context, interpretation, comment, criticism, analysis
    and debate. The larger truth, over time, emerges from this forum.
    As citizens encounter an ever-greater flow of data, they have more
    need not less for suppliers of information dedicated to finding and

    verifying the news and putting it in context. (CITED)


    Ethics in Media Communications: Cases and Controversies by Louis A. Day.
    In this book, it is explained about a world of limited truth, and shows a lot of
    cases that is related to the truth and honesty in journalism. Also, it cited a media
    practitioners and the truth-falsehood dichotomy, where it tells about truth in
    journalism: the Standard of Journalistic Truth, and Where Truth and Fiction

    Collide: the Docudrama.


    The Case of Stephen Glass: from a lot of literature reviews.

    Essay Question:
    Methodology:
    Discussion:
    Conclusion:
    Limitation:
    Bibliography:

    What we are talking here that journalists are facing is not


    merely a plagiarism, which mean copying others work and
    mentioned that it was their own. Instead, professional
    journalism isnt facing a plagiarism problem. Its facing an
    originality failure. And you cant blame the Internet. Our
    originality breakdown results from many pressures the
    overwhelming volume of writing incessantly pushed out into
    the digital space, the pressure on writers to feed a content
    beast thats never satiated, the diminishing economic forces
    that support professional writing. (

    http://www.poynter.org/latest-

    news/everyday-ethics/189900/journalism-has-an-originality-problem-not-aplagiarism-problem/).

    There are more plagiarisms in journalism today than there was


    20 years ago.
    Before the Internet, newsrooms were lucky enough to stumble
    into a method for growing writers. It wasnt perfect and there

    certainly were scandals, such as when The Washington Posts


    Janet Cooke fabricated a character in a story that went on to
    win the Pulitzer, or when Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle
    stole material from comedian George Carlin and others.
    These days, it feels like hardly a week goes by without a
    professional journalist being exposed for plagiarism, fabrication
    or patchwriting, which is a failed attempt at paraphrasing that
    over-relies on the original writers syntax and vocabulary.
    Were mystified by the prospect of building a culture that
    breeds original thinking and writing in todays digital world.
    Yet, we can look to writers who are successfully hitting the
    mark of originality and imitate their methods.
    If were going to solve the problem of unoriginal writing, we
    need to focus on the process of writing, instead of simply
    careening from one failure to another.

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