In 2004, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, a University of Pennsylvania graduate, wrote a review of a movie about another Penn grad, fabulist Stephen Glass.  It ran in the student newspaper, the Daily Penn, and Erdely describes Glass as her former classmate.  In light of how Erdely's own blockbuster story in Rolling Stone about a gang-rape at the University of Virginia has unraveled when people started asking tough questions, I thought this passage from her review of Shattered Glass raised some interesting questions of its own. I found the movie riveting—although, due to the personal connection, plus the fact that Shattered Glass portrays my own line of work (realistically, I might add), I’m an admittedly biased viewer. As the lights came up, however, I felt dissatisfied by the film, because it never attempts to resolve the big question: Why did he do it? Perhaps director Billy Ray, who had no access to Glass during the filmmaking, was never able to come up...(Read Full Post)