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To: Dragonfly who wrote (500)	6/12/1998 4:25:00 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 880

DragonFraud, you made the story up. Admit it. Admit it. Come clean with us. We now know who you really are: Most articles by ousted New Republic writer at least partly fake 2.21 p.m. ET (1822 GMT) June 12, 1998 WASHINGTON (AP) - Editors at The New Republic are apologizing to readers after finding that ousted reporter Stephen Glass invented all or part of 27 of the 41 articles he wrote for the publication. "We offer no excuses for any of this,'' the magazine says in its upcoming issue. "Only our deepest apologies to all concerned.'' Glass, who is 25, was fired last month as an associate editor after confessing he had "embellished'' a story about computer hackers. The article ran in the May 18 issue. The confession prompted a monthlong investigation by the journal to analyze the stories that Glass wrote during his 3-year stint. Glass cooperated with the investigation and apologized this week in letters to Charles Lane, the magazine's editor, and Martin Peretz, the owner and editor in chief. "From our point of view, we have completed our investigation,'' Lane said Friday. "We feel we know everything that's important to know. We feel that we've presented our fullest accounting to the public.'' Six stories "could be considered entirely or nearly made up,'' the magazine says in the June 29 issue. Others are a "blend of fact and fiction.'' In one article, "Spring Breakdown,'' a portrayal of a 1997 conservative political conference in a Washington hotel, Glass made up accounts of drug use, drinking and sexual harassment by young conference attendees, editors said. Lane has said Glass "deliberately deceived'' the magazine's fact-checkers with forged notes, fabricated documents, fake press releases and a bogus Web site. He said reader comment has varied. "I don't believe lasting damage has been done to the credibility of the magazine although certainly this is not the kind of episode we'd like,'' Lane said. Glass' attorney, Gerson Zweifach, said Glass had no immediate plans to offer a public explanation. "He's cooperating with The New Republic and any other publisher who asks,'' Zweifach said.