On September 4, 2003, Rolling Stone magazine published an article by Stephen Glass.
Yes, that Stephen Glass.
By 2003 Glass had become one of the most notorious fraudsters in the hostly of journalism. He had outright made up dozens of articles he published in The New Republic in the 1990s. He had been the subject of a 2003 movie Shattered Glass starring Hayden Christensen, who depicted Glass as a mentally unstable pathological liar who got stories greenly by editors who found his tall tales too entertaining – and anti-Republican – to turn down.
And yet, after all of that, Rolling Stone decided to publish Glass. “Canada’s Pot Revolution” ran in September 2003.
The unbelievable, demented chutzpa of Rolling Stone platforming Glass after all that brings to mind the case of Jake Tapper. Axios’ Alex Thompson and CNN’s Jake Tapper are publishing a book on May…
