At the center of the populous production play “Good Name” are disagreements among colleagues regarding one of the “signal letters” received by the editor. Without really understanding the essence of the matter and without sending a correspondent to the university from which a complaint was received against one of the teachers, the newspaper hastened to publish a caustic feuilleton, as a result of which the person lost his position. Having received numerous letters in support of the teacher from his students, journalists behave differently: the management and some employees believe that a refutation of the feuilleton will ruin the reputation of the newspaper and do not react, while others are primarily worried about the fate of the person whom they may have killed. lied to.