That Drudge is a disgrace:
Group Sues Writer for Sham Article
Tuesday, June 30, 1998; 2:33 p.m. EDT
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The national police anti-drug group D.A.R.E. is
suing a former staff writer at The New Republic who admitted making up
material in his articles, including at least one about D.A.R.E.
In a $10 million libel suit filed Monday in Los Angeles federal court, the
group Drug Abuse Resistance Education charges that Stephen Glass took
''free license to invent facts, people and scenarios, falsely describing them
in detail'' in two articles he wrote about D.A.R.E.
''D.A.R.E. was one victim of many,'' the suit said, according to today's
Los Angeles Times. ''There is absolutely no truth to Glass' statements
regarding D.A.R.E. and Glass has admitted as such.''
Editors at The New Republic apologized earlier this month to readers
after finding that Glass, 25, fabricated all or part of 27 of the 41 articles he
wrote for the publication.
It wasn't clear how much of the D.A.R.E. stories were made up. One, in
The New Republic, accused D.A.R.E. of covering up the program's
problems and intimidating people into not exposing them.
The New Republic said some D.A.R.E. critics were pressured to soften
their opinions, as Glass had written, but it acknowledged that Glass made
up at least four people, the suit said.
The other D.A.R.E. piece by Glass was a free-lance assignment for
Rolling Stone. The lawsuit does not name The New Republic or Rolling
Stone as defendants.
Glass was fired last month after confessing he made up a story about
computer hackers. The confession prompted a monthlong investigation by
The New Republic. Glass cooperated with the investigation and
apologized in letters to Charles Lane, the magazine's editor, and Martin
Peretz, the owner and editor in chief.
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