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Stephen Glass became infamous in 1998 after being exposed for fabricating large amount of his articles culminating in the famous “Hack Heaven”, a story of a 15 year old hacker who landed a plum job in a software company after defacing their website. Stephen Glass became the subject of a movie titled - “Shattered Glass”, which I happened to see partly today on HBO. In the process I started thinking about a somewhat similar incident I faced in recent past. The part of Stephen’s story which is most interesting to me is how he duped the often skeptical and hardened editors of several famous news outlets, how did he perfectly pass the “stink test” so many times, how did he bypass the fact checking system in place at TNR?

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