Original sentence: In the movie Shattered Glass, which portrays the unmasking of writer Stephen Glass' serial fabrications in the pages of The New Republic, Peretz was played by Canadian director Ted Kotcheff
Edited sentence: " Shafer's 1991 examination of the 90-plus pieces Peretz inserted into The New Republic found Peretz repeatedly explaining his theory that there are no "Arab nations," only violent tribal groups with no allegiance to their countries.(He was played by well-known Canadian director Ted Kotcheff.Glenn Greenwald, a lawyer and author, reviewed a month's worth of Peretz's New Republic blog, The Spine, and found that "his blog, and apparently his political worldview, are devoted primarily to one argument -- that Arabs and Muslims are primitive savages and barbarians, and that the notion of a 'moderate Muslim' or even a civilized Arab is all but a myth.He also noted frequent press-bashing of media outlets and personalities Peretz perceives as enemies of Israel, ranging from the Washington Post to Peter Jennings.In a recent blog post, Peretz claimed that Pakistan is not a country.In the movie Shattered Glass, which portrays the unmasking of writer Stephen Glass' serial fabrications in the pages of The New Republic, Peretz was presented as a capricious figure who regularly fired his top editors and who once degraded the magazine's staff by ordering them to circle every comma in an issue of the magazine.Media critic Eric Alterman criticized Peretz for excessive support of Israel and for "his obsessive and unapologetic hatred of Arabs".Media critic Jack Shafer has described Peretz as a "self-promoter, braggart, Arab-hater, name-dropper, and bad writer.Peretz has been accused by several critics of being stridently anti-Arab and anti-Muslim.The majority of Peretz's posts, with varying degrees of explicitness, is devoted to bolstering that claim