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Shattered Glass dan Jurnalistik

  Film Shattered Glass (2003) yang disutradai Billy Ray ini menceritakan tentang seorang jurnalis muda bernama Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen) yang bekerja di New Republic. Harian New Republic ini lebih cenderung ke arah politik, dan menjadi media acuan para petinggi politik dan pihak kepresidenan. Film ini memberikan perspektif bagaimana cerita di ruang editorial koran ini sendiri. Ketegangan ini bermula ketika pihak hotel menelpon pihak koran mengenai detail dalam berita tulisan Stephen yang dinilai salah. Micheal, selaku editor dalam struktur redaksi tersebut, memanggil Stephen untuk memastikan tulisannya. Stephen akhirnya mengaku, dia tidak memverifikasi data tersebut kembali, melainkan hanya menyimpulkan apa yang dia lihat dan menjadikannya sebagai fakta untuk bahan berita. Micheal tidak memecat Stephen atas apa yang ia lakukan. Micheal memang dikenal dalam lingkup redaksi tersebut sebagai sosok editor yang selalu melindungi pegawainya atas karya-karya mereka, dan bertanggu

Beauty: Pain? Happy? Sacrifice?

Beautiful. One word with thousands of meaning. When we heard “beauty”, we may directly think about the perfect curve body of Kim Kardashian, or the exotic blonde curly hair of Christina Aguilera, in the other hand, beauty could have a meaning of how we represent our we represent our personality and behavior to people. There are so many definition of beauty depends on each person perspective. Beauty is pain, a sentence that familiar to all of us. Beauty have a strong bound with looks, starting from a sharp nose, healthy hair, blinky nails, sexy lips, smooth skin, perfect curve of body, and all this perfect little thing in our body creates the whole meaning of beauty. People never can denied their imperfection that lied on their body. But people can cover or change each little physical imperfection that they had. Make up that could improve the impression from our face, also could make the dramatic effect to face. Fashion and dresses could represent what image of beauty is really do