Movies and TvShows featuring "journalistic-fraud" theme.

A journalist fabricates a story about a local pimp in order to further his career, but the lie quickly spirals out of control when a murder trial becomes intertwined.

Shattered Glass is a drama film based on the true story of Stephen Glass, a writer for The New Republic magazine who was discovered to have fabricated much of his work. The movie explores the scandal that unfolds as Glass's credibility is called into question and the impact it has on the world of journalism.

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.

The story of one of the biggest media scandals of our time is an epic thriller about deception and psychological manipulation in a world where integrity and credibility are everything – but where the art of telling a good story sometimes weighs heaviest.