There is one other particularly interesting part of the movie. We have come to rely so heavily on Google and other search engines that it seems unbelievable that the fabricated of stories by Glass would ever pass muster with the fact checkers of such a prominent organization without simply getting "Googled". The fact that readers can now instantly Google a name or a business and get thousands of sites worth of information makes it even more hard to believe. Thankfully fact checking no longer begins and ends with the same people who publish the story.

That Glass was able to fool so many of the journalists who are charged with uncovering the "truth" about news in general is disconcerting. How it came to be that Glass's stories could have been at one time so unquestionably true, then upon further reflection such obvious fabrications is the truly hard part to believe.

Which begs the question why some rank and file journalists would have such a moral objection to a covert trip to surprise the troops on Thanksgiving while aiming to achieve the most protection for a president entering a war zone. There is plenty of journalism where the press acts like judge, jury, and executioner and probably not nearly enough times where it really does report and allow people to decide. Luckily the people more often than not have the last laugh. Let's be serious, if the people always went along with the conventional wisdom of the press it wouldn't be very exciting would it.

Jackson Murphy is a commentator from Vancouver, Canada. He is a senior writer at Enter Stage Right and the editor of "Dispatches" a website that serves up political commentary 24-7.