Stephen Glass is a prime example of someone who doesn't deserve forgiveness or more fame for their lies. When a journalist lies multiple times or even once they should be fired from their job and lose respect as a journalist. There are many journalists in this world who tell truthful stories and earn less than the ones lying. Which is a disrespect to the profession. An apology is of course step one to forgiveness but I feel for someone who is like, Stephen Glass their apology should not be accepted. He tried so hard to cover his lies and purposely made websites so he could site them. I feel his one lie built up hundreds more, and as a profession that should be telling the truth he doesn't deserve forgiveness. If the journalist who lied gets fined the money should go to the company they we're working for. As a company they try putting out their best work to earn loyal customers. With the attention a journalist gets for lying it makes their paper or magazine look bad because they lied to their readers. They deserve to be able to rebuild from this mistake and give back to their customers. I don't feel prison would accomplish anything in this type of situation. Even though they lied and disrespected the system jail just isn't the place for them. Making them well known to journalist around the world for what they did is a good way to punish them because this will cause them to lose respect as a journalist. Stephen Glass made millions of dollars from the book and movie deal he got. I believe none of that should have been given to him. He didn't deserve to publish a book that was made up of his mistakes because many people work hard and don't get the same fortune as someone who built their story over lies. Also, the movie deal just made the profession of journalism look bad. He deserved the embarrassment the movie caused him but not the money. Someone who lies in a profession as truthful as journalism doesn't deserve the respect they once had.
