"The price of truth" is a film made in 2003, inspired by an article by Buzz Bissinger's Vanity Fair magazine and later wrote the novel under the title "The Fabulist" which tells the story of a journalist (Stephen Glass) who invents news to climb rapidly in his journalism career (In The New Republic magazine current affairs and politics in the U.S.). This film is based on real events, under the newly elected U.S. president, Bill Clinton in the late twentieth century.
The film begins with one of his fake stories (Spring Breakdown) where it has the hypocritical behavior of a student community bourgeois Republican side, smoking weed, getting drunk, abusing innocent girls and speaking ill of their own party they belong to.
figure in journalism from the editor (also known as Editor) has not only the arduous task of correcting errors of wording and style of the journalists, but also to confirm whether all data provided by the journalist's story are real. When Stephen Glass has this first story, the Editor is Michael Kelly, who has a tolerant, non-paternalistic position with reporters. Upon receiving a complaint from the Republican party's youth committee which wield the falsity of the report by the detail that the hotel where they were staying these students, has no mini-bar service and therefore could not consume liquor bottles which were allegedly drunk. When the editor (Michael) calls the reporter (Stephen) to make note of this complaint, the response from Stephen is to have resorted to speculative lightness of being a mini-bar if not possibly a rented mini-freezer. The editor Michael accepts the response of the journalist but once away reconfirms the fact the direct source, and in the film story, is suspended from the fact the truth. Closing the ellipsis in the final match of the two colleagues, Michael asks again about the events of that spring Republican and reminds the incident of the mini-bar and only response obtained by the silence of Stephen leaving unclear what it is: a storyteller.
then the newspaper's owner, Marty Peretz, has a strong argument with the editor in question and dismissed, not only to confront him and hurt his pride, but for their alleged negligence in the forms of writing. This makes the next editor Chuck Lane is considered by Marty as the best journalist of his staff. Lane does not have the status and esteem of the rest of the newspaper plant unlike Stephen that it does for his jovial, friendly and flattering.
The reason is that Stephen has a greater ability to socialize with others. How it works mostly with women, this reporter used manipulation techniques and be aware of small details, something that women love, that brings things like chewing gum, the slope of their hair looks, your lipstick, it is that is deeply in touch with their feelings, to even get to invent rumors as being homosexual just to justify this behavior. This is your main shield with her fellow journalists when claims its new chief editor (Chuck Lane) Chuck
entering the editorial leadership, the new article of the journalist is Hack Heaven (Paradise Hacker) that becomes the corpus of the film story and where it is discovered at an average inter-yacht. In the invented story spoiled child hacker gets applause and cheers of a community of hackers allegedly having defrauded a large multinational. To confirm this story contact the new editor to another editor Chuck competitive match to check if other media are covering the story in the same way. She realizes that the story is a fable. There is no news because there are no facts. This produces a stronger fissures between the professional ethical, moral ethics and journalism.
Both editors in his telephone call and project pose potential problems that can emerge once the means to discover the information and publish farce lies. Chuck defends his colleague and superior. A full public discrediting affect the personal career of journalist and sprinkle the pristine truth of the magazine. The cyber environment editor gentlemen's agreement establishes his position in time (reportedly the departure date of the article) and warns against public scorn become a colleague, but you must understand that a crime has been committed and that's communication news and should not be hidden. Open and to reconfirm facts within the report questioned where he participated in his rescue by the publisher of the journalist who is increasingly exposing the lie as the investigation proceeds of the facts, all fictional.
Colleagues journalists from The New Republic take an auto unionism and Stephen decide to support and confront unconfirmed report in question. In principle Chuck decides to suspend the editor and Stephen handled an alleged psychological weakness that is only the mask of storyteller who makes fun of its readers and the race itself attempting not only to the principles of journalistic ethics but also ethics. Stephen turns to crying, pleading, too much work and fight until the last causes its blatant lie when Chuck discovers that this story is not just a dream but 27 of the 41 signed articles for the magazine.
In short, Chuck finally discovers that Stephen is a great deceiver and deceived his colleagues and all readers who have been in this environment as one of the most accurate and high credibility in the elite caste of politicians, including the reading of the presidents of state.
The last letter of apology alone is not written by the editor, but by the collective consciousness of the folks who finally saw their Editor in Chief was right to take away the mask of journalist Stephen Glass. Thus shows that colleagues weighed the race and questioned manipulating its partner and opted for an ethical decision. Are co-workers but they must distinguish between a case-error can be forgiven, to settled, treacherous and unforgivable way to lie compulsively in this profession.
The film ends with a trial where the crimes are clarified and noted that the journalist agrees with his silence that he had invented 27 reports partially or completely. Stephen illustration film takes the theme of the report, due to some students of social communication presented as a role model of contemporary journalism ... but finally we note again that this is another of the fantasies of the protagonist. This final revelation makes us think that the protagonist is a pathological liar, hence his vicious excesses lies.
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