How do you feel about Stephen in the beginning of the movie? How does he interact with his coworkers, and what do his coworkers think of him? What do you think of him as he’s telling his coworkers the story about the hacker?
In the beginning of the movie Stephen takes advantage of his co-workers by saying nice comments to them about their appearance and of things of that nature, which is kind of amusing in a sense that it actually works. His co-workers like him and help with out when he asks them to. When he tells the story about the hacker he basically has them drinking it up from him, they hang onto every word he says.
Would you like to hang out with Stephen (as he’s portrayed in the first five or ten minutes of the movie)?
No, because he tends to get his friends to do his work for him and I certainly would not be ok with that.
What are the ethical dilemmas that Stephen faces? What ethical issues does the film explore through Stephen’s choices? Some may argue that what Stephen has done isn’t wrong. Do you think it’s wrong?
The ethical dilemmas that Stephen faces are about his articles. Everything he writes has to be checked out and made sure that the information is correct and respectable. Chuck and another online magazine catch Stephen in a made up story that he published which would be an issue of lying. It depends on the circumstances, for entertainment I think it’s acceptable, but since he wrote for a very respectable magazine in think that it was wrong for him to do that. Also the audience of his articles is some the most highly influential people in our government that have the power to make important decisions based upon certain facts.
What ethical dilemmas does Chuck (Stephen’s editor) face? What conflicting duties does he have? Consider Chuck’s choices as editor with the ethical standards Stephen sets up for editors, and consider the conversation he has with the editor of the magazine that discovers Stephen’s article is fabricated?
Chuck is supposed to back his writers but in this case he hangs him out to dry basically. I think the dilemma Chuck faced was who do I support?… My writer or the people questioning my writer. For Stephen he expects his editor to have his back no matter what happens and in this case Chuck let him get ripped up.
Nice work.