|Based on the true story of Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), a reporter in the late 1990s for the liberal magazine ''The New Republic'', lies and distorts news stories to make them entertaining. He begins by submitting an article about the Conservative Political Action Conference, in which he fabricated stories of drinking and sexual mischief. Then, after he writes a colorful but suspicious story on a superstar web hacker, a group from a small online news site begin to question his journalistic integrity. | |Based on the true story of Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), a reporter in the late 1990s for the liberal magazine ''The New Republic'', lies and distorts news stories to make them entertaining. He begins by submitting an article about the Conservative Political Action Conference, in which he fabricated stories of drinking and sexual mischief. Then, after he writes a colorful but suspicious story on a superstar web hacker, a group from a small online news site begin to question his journalistic integrity. |