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[edit] 21 not 27

According to Shattered Glass Glass only fabricated 21 articles, not 27. I have updated the article to reflect this.

According to the DVD version of Shattered Glass and many other articles that I have read, Stephen Glass did fabricate 27 articles. Therefore I changed it back. --BRO_co03 21:41, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Maarten Verkiel

"Maarten Verkiel" a Dutch film director? I think not. A short wave radio show called "let's Talk About Things"????? A rudimentary fact check on Google would suggest that this last paragraph may well have been written by Mr Glass himself and I will accordingly remove"--81.19.57.130 11:44, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright

Is this article copying this site [1] or is it the other way around? Alakon 06:43, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

  • NM. I'm going to go with the latter, because there are several other examples (and yes, I agree that the "Let's talk about things" show is a fiction). Infringing: [2] Correctly attributing GFDL: [3] Alakon

(feel free to delete this section if you feel I've answered my own question)

[edit] more info?

Is there any more information on this topic? If so it would be appreciated.

        E.S.

[edit] Article links

Found a site that had "Don't you D.A.R.E.". Unfortunately, the link for "Cheap Suits" was broken. Vidor 13:14, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Found two more articles. The "Mrs. Colehill" article from Policy Review, complete with the fictional Mrs. Colehill, I linked to. I also found a copy of a 1997 TNR article, "Mount Vernon: Slavery Chic", on a message board. However, I did NOT link to that article, because I don't know if it was fake or not. It reads like it's fake, but the "A Tissue of Lies" website that I linked to in the article does not include the Mount Vernon piece amongst the fabricated Glass articles. I have been unable to find any other list of Glass articles that discriminates between those known to be faked and those believed to be real or still undetermined. If anyone can find such a list, I'd appreciate it.

And if anyone can find "Spring Breakdown" anywhere on the Internet, that would be awesome. Really wish that one was available, especially as it was so prominently featured in the movie, Shattered Glass. Vidor 12:47, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Added a paragraph recounting incidents before the "Hack Heaven" scandal where persons accused Glass of distortions. Also edited out the link provided by User 219.168.92.41, because it was a link to the "A Tissue of Lies" website, which I had already linked to in the "External Links" section. Vidor 15:08, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Someone else

I remember learning in a class of a reporter, I think female, who did something similar- I think making up a story of an abused child... I seem to remember she claimed alter it wasn't "made up," but was rather an aggregate of several stories... could anyone point me to her? Cantras 08:52, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Janet_Cooke is who I believe you are refering to.--66.240.89.45 19:23, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] birthdate ambiguity

Born in 1974, and under the category "1972 Births"?

67.109.103.194 He was born in '72. I know because he was a year ahead of me at Penn. I have fixed the page.

Changed birthdate category again..

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