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user-inactivated  ·  4039 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: No second chance for Stephen Glass: The long, strange downfall of a journalistic wunderkind

Well ... he lied in a profession based on the principle of speaking truth to sell ads.

You can't sell ads if your writers aren't buying in to the journalistic process.

He broke that shit good. And he kept lying. And manufacturing evidence.

I can see the reasoning with the CA and NY Bar from keeping out a person with a history of those things.