A former journalist who was exposed as a serial-fabricator once disciplined the Rolling Stone reporter at the center of the magazine’s now-unraveling campus sexual assault story, according to author Samuel Hughes.
When Stephen Glass was editor of the University of Pennsylvania student newspaper, he called a staff meeting to address a fake report written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely (then Sabrina Rubin).
Hughes described the scene in his 2006 book, “Penn In Ink”:
Glass would go on to become an associate editor at the New Republic, a left-leaning opinion magazine, where he penned a great number of outright falsehoods. The magazine estimated that Glass authored at least 27 reports containing fabrications, stories concocted entirely from his imagination.
He resigned in disgrace in 1998. Glass has not worked in journalism since.
Meanwhile, Erdely has fallen silent recently, disappearing almost entirely from the public eye as various news groups, including Slate, the Washington Post and the Federalist, continue to pick apart the many inconsistencies in her November report on an alleged sexual assault at the University of Virginia, titled “A Rape on Campus.”
(H/T: @UrbanAchievr,)
