Posted on 05/08/2003 4:41:17 AM PDT by Liz
Stephen Glass—the scandalized ex–New Republic ex-Wunderkind who hasn’t piped up publicly since he was given the heave-ho for making stuff up—will break his silence Sunday May 11 in an interview on 60 Minutes.
Mr. Glass recently sat for an interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft. Other individuals interviewed for the piece include Charles Lane, Mr. Glass’s former editor at TNR—now at The Washington Post—and Leon Wieseltier, TNR’s literary editor.
Mr. Glass, who’d written for other magazines besides TNR, was at the center of a mighty media hoo-hah in 1998 after he was busted for fabricating parts of many of his pieces. Canned from TNR by Mr. Lane, the then-25-year-old pretty much went underground, though along the way he did get a diploma from Georgetown Law.
Now there appears to be at Stephen Glass revival at hand. Mr. Glass’s story is the subject of a forthcoming film entitled Shattered Glass, in which the reporter is played by Hayden Christensen, the Star Wars: Attack of the Clones kid. Mr. Lane is played by Peter Sarsgaard; late TNR editor Michael Kelly is played by Hank Azaria. The film is scheduled for release in October.
And Mr. Glass has written a novel. It’s a fictionalized account—your joke here—of his own story.
Efforts to locate Mr. Glass yesterday were unsuccessful. A spokesperson for 60 Minutes said the show had no comment on this Sunday’s episode. Mr. Lane declined comment, and Mr. Wieseltier did not return calls.
One person who will be watching Sunday’s 60 Minutes with interest is Adam Penenberg, a journalist whose Forbes.com investigation of one of Mr. Glass’s stories ultimately led to the reporter’s ouster. Mr. Penenberg and his Forbes.com editor, Kambiz Foroohar, are also characters in Shattered Glass (Mr. Penenberg, now an accomplished book author himself, is played by Steve Zahn)
"I’d love to hear what he has to say," Mr. Penenberg said. "I guess the question I have is, ‘Why should we believe anything he has to say?’"
Hewitt put the conniving Clintons on 60 Minutes when their prez candidacy was faltering and where they proceeded to lie and lie and lie. Hewitt's bio written 15 years later acknowledge he know the Clintons were lying but aired their segment anyway thus inflicting thsse two criminal on an unsuspecting public.
Now Hewitt foists this fraudster Glaas on us. Glass will end up ready for canonization after Hewitt gets through with reinventing him. </sarcasm off)
But Georgetown has sullied itself again.
I'm not familiar with this guy; what did he fabricate?
The legal profession itself is hardly above reproach so why should those they admit to the bar be unsullied? (/sarcasm off)
You have to remember, Glass generally only made stuff up about conservatives to make them look bad, or about things to further some liberal cause. Therefore, in the eyes of liberals, he was doing "good work". Truth is not important to liberals.
And law schools in general, and Georgetown in particular (my alma mater), are incredibly liberal institutions.
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