Lane fired journalist Stephen Glass in 1998 for making up a story that ran in the magazine under the headline Hack Heaven. It was subsequently discovered that Glass fabricated other stories for The New Republic and other publications. The story of Stephen Glass is told in the new film Shattered Glass. Lane now covers the Supreme Court for The Washington Post.
Peter Sarsgaard portrays editor Charles Lane in the film Shattered Glass. Lane fired journalist Stephen Glass from The New Republic in 1998 for fabricating stories.
Mike Lazzo is senior vice president for the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim –- a three-hour block of cartoons targeted to adults. It includes original and acquired animation. Lazzo co-created the network’s first original series in 1995, Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Another Adult Swim series is Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, which borrows Hanna Barbera cartoon characters from the '60s, including the obscure Birdman, a masked crusader with wings who defends cartoon characters like Fred Flintstone and Scooby Doo.