Over the course of 4 years Stephen Glass had written 27 false stories before he was fired. Ken Dilanian had written a considerably more sinister story, in which he the C.I.A contacted him and got him to lie about the U.S killing Yemen innocents while trying to get to an Al Qaeda leader.
The U.S conducted airstrikes in Yemen to take out Abu Yahya al-Libi. While he was killed, the airstrike killed 20 others and injured 7 (some of which were terrorists).
Unlike Glass' fame gathering stories, Dilanian wrote a cover-up. Ken Dilanian's C.I.A edited article in the LA Times covered up the fact that the U.S airstrike killed civilians and wrote that only terrorists were hurt in the attack.
Dilanian's lies caught up to him when the International Bureau of Investigation exposed letters between him and the C.I.A. It turns out unlike Glass, he wasn't fired, he quit and joined the Associated Press because it turns out many journalists edit their stories to the C.I.A's liking.
The story that brought Stephen Glass' false articles to everyone's attention was a piece called, "Hack Heaven". Here's a link to the article: http://www.ep.tc/realist/140/11.html
Glass wouldn't just bend the truth, he would completely make something up out of nothing such as this article. Many of the sources he uses in this story aren't even true, Jukt Micronics and Ian Restil don't even exist.
If this was one of his last stories before he was caught, why did it take so long? Here are a few reasons.
Most people loved his stories, the magazine publishing them wanted to post them because they were great. The editors just wanted to take his word for them being real because they were hilarious.
Many of the things were easy for Stephen to cover up as well. In a lot of them he "experienced" some of these situations first hand, so he was often his own source.
It took completely different companies to catch these two reporters on their own lies, so that goes to show you how lazy some publisher can get. Something great we can take away from these two are that we shouldn't EVER assume or make things up in journalism.
The U.S conducted airstrikes in Yemen to take out Abu Yahya al-Libi. While he was killed, the airstrike killed 20 others and injured 7 (some of which were terrorists).
Unlike Glass' fame gathering stories, Dilanian wrote a cover-up. Ken Dilanian's C.I.A edited article in the LA Times covered up the fact that the U.S airstrike killed civilians and wrote that only terrorists were hurt in the attack.
Dilanian's lies caught up to him when the International Bureau of Investigation exposed letters between him and the C.I.A. It turns out unlike Glass, he wasn't fired, he quit and joined the Associated Press because it turns out many journalists edit their stories to the C.I.A's liking.
The story that brought Stephen Glass' false articles to everyone's attention was a piece called, "Hack Heaven". Here's a link to the article: http://www.ep.tc/realist/140/11.html
Glass wouldn't just bend the truth, he would completely make something up out of nothing such as this article. Many of the sources he uses in this story aren't even true, Jukt Micronics and Ian Restil don't even exist.
If this was one of his last stories before he was caught, why did it take so long? Here are a few reasons.
Most people loved his stories, the magazine publishing them wanted to post them because they were great. The editors just wanted to take his word for them being real because they were hilarious.
Many of the things were easy for Stephen to cover up as well. In a lot of them he "experienced" some of these situations first hand, so he was often his own source.
It took completely different companies to catch these two reporters on their own lies, so that goes to show you how lazy some publisher can get. Something great we can take away from these two are that we shouldn't EVER assume or make things up in journalism.
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