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Article: A tarnished 'republic.' ('New Republic' journalist Stephen Glass wrote a story of an event that never took place)
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- June 19, 1998
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'Attitude' that led to a fall
Cowering like a televangelist caught in the wrong motel room and now begging forgiveness, that was the ungenerous image that sprang to mind as I read the June 1 issue of the New Republic.
"The New Republic has always been a stringent magazine," the editors write, "stringent about intellectual honesty and stringent about telling the truth. We have not hesitated to hold others to account when they have, in our judgment, transgressed against those norms. But we know that this stringency - which is such an integral part of this institution's eighty-four-year tradition - cannot be credible unless we are willing to apply it to ourselves ...