Shattered Glass (2003)

Mark Blum: Lewis Estridge

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• Lewis Estridge : [talking privately in the break room]  All I'm suggesting is that there might be facets of this that you're not considering.

  Chuck Lane : Why are you defending him?

  Lewis Estridge : Nobody is defending him, Chuck.

  Chuck Lane : Of course you're defending him.

  Lewis Estridge : He's a kid.

  Chuck Lane : He doctored his notes, Lew. Just consider that for a second, you know? He sat down, and he hand-wrote a bunch of phony quotes, and then he handed them in as source material for the fact-check. Doesn't that offend you?

  Lewis Estridge : Of course it does.

  Chuck Lane : He also lied to his editor. That's supposed to offend you, too.

  Lewis Estridge : He's a confused, distraught kid, obviously, Chuck. So suspend him for a couple of months, but let's not bury him.

  Chuck Lane : [Shaking his head]  Suspend him.

  Lewis Estridge : There are also political considerations to take into account here. The rest of the staff, the way they feel about him.

  Chuck Lane : I... I already know all that.

  Lewis Estridge : What I'm saying is if you fire him, some of these people will leave. I don't know if we'd still have a magazine at the end of the day.