Who is worse? Stephen Glass or Megan Carter?

Megan Carter is worse because she was ruining the lives of others. She first wrote about Michael Gallagher when she shouldn't have even looked into the police file. The article itself wasn't accurate because it insinuated that Michael was a criminal, which destroyed his career. His workers refused to work for a criminal. Then she hurt Michael's best friend Teresa by publishing how she had an abortion. In the interview with Teresa, it was clear how she did not want her name published and Megan did so anyway. In the end, Teresa took her own life because of her mental instability. Megan effected more people in a negative way, than Stephen Glass did.

Stephen more or less wanted the approval of all those around him and therefore lied about his stories. Since the people and the events in Stephen's stories were all fabricated no one was really hurt, except maybe the public. The public would be effected because it would be hard to believe anything that he published and they would be more skeptical of journalists. What Glass did was out of his own insecurity of being well liked, and what Carter did was about telling a story, no matter who got hurt. In that way, more ethical codes were being broken, because more lives were personally effected negatively.