Journalistic Ethics

In class, we learned about Journalism ethics, and lies that have been published in journals by individuals in well known newspapers such as New York Times, Boston Times, etc. that I have cost them to lose their jobs. We focused on Stephen Glass, this individual is known as a disgrace in Journalism, due to the fact that half of his published articles were fabrications. Then a few years later, he made a  public apology for his wrong actions. In my opinion, I believe there should be a consequence for people who make up lies out of their careers that way because, it is not fair for people who work too hard to get where they want to be. An apology is not enough as well, there should be a fine for each false publication that the "Journalist" published. In addition, we learned that Stephen Glass's fake career was turned into a movie, demonstrating what he did throughout his whole career. I strongly believe, that anyone who is fake that way and gets a movie after what they have done, should not benefit any profit from the book or movie because it will encourage more people to do this, in a sense that people will start thinking if they spend half of their life becoming liars then get richer by getting actors portraying their stories.