Send us a text Our special guest this month is Chuck Lane, the former New Republic editor who was portrayed by Peter Sarsgaard in Shattered Glass! We had a blast talking with Chuck, who left the magazine about two years after the events featured in the movie and went on to a long and illustrious career at the Washington Post. Chuck was gracious as we peppered him with questions about the events of the film, and got his take on Shattered Glass director Billy Ray's assessment of the central con...
Aug 12, 2025
43 min
Send us a text This month's special guest is Phinney Books owner, Jeopardy! champ, and All the President's Men superfan Tom Nissley, who witnessed the birth of our Shattered Glass obsession (and slept through a little of it.) Tom—who went to high school with Josh in Bethesda—has some theories, and they involve the movie Ordinary People, which we all watched this week (Tom dug it, Josh cried, and Erica rolled her eyes). Is Shattered Glass just a mashup between All the Presidents' Men and...
Jul 1, 2025
44 min
Send us a text We're so excited to release our interview with Shattered Glass director Billy Ray, who was kind enough to indulge all our questions about our favorite movie, like: What happened between the scene where Chloe Sevigny confronts Peter Sarsgaard for firing Stephen and the next day, when she leads the team in applauding him for his brave decision? Where does Shattered Glass rank in the pantheon of movies Ray's written over the course of his career, which include blockbusters l...
May 30, 2025
45 min
Send us a text Chances are you aren't a journalist, and chances are even better that unlike the hosts of this podcast, you weren't a journalist in the Shattered Glass era—a time when alternative print media was being destroyed by online classified ads and folded into the templates of a few "alternative" media conglomerates—the predatory vulture capitalists of their day. We still think you'll love this movie as much as we do, and we're here to tell you why! And if you still don't believe...
Apr 18, 2025
28 min
Send us a text We have a very exciting special guest for the second episode of Are You Mad At Me?: The real-life Adam Penenberg! Penenberg, portrayed by Steve Zahn in Shattered Glass, was working for an early online outlet called Forbes Digital Tool when his editor, Kambiz Foroohar, demanded to know why he'd been scooped by Stephen Glass on a story about teenage hackers. That story, "Hack Heaven," focused on a kid named Ian Restil who had hacked into a "big-time software firm" called Ju...
Mar 9, 2025
43 min
Send us a text In the inaugural episode of this 12-month podcast, we dissect some of our favorite scenes from Shattered Glass, and tell you why you should watch this iconic movie. Quotes: "Is anyone interested in hackers?" "The building's closed on Sundays." "He fed us fiction after fiction, and we printed them all as fact. Just because we found him... entertaining." Hosts: Josh Feit and Erica C. Barnett Edited by: Erica C. Barnett
Feb 1, 2025
50 min