The New Republic Affair
Though Glass enjoyed loyalty from The New Republic staff, his reporting repeatedly drew outraged rebuttals from the subjects of his articles, eroding his credibility and leading to private skepticism from insiders at The New Republic. After the scandal broke, the magazine's majority owner and editor-in-chief, Martin Peretz, admitted that his wife had told him that she did not find Glass' stories credible and had stopped reading them. In the end, Glass' final editor at TNR, Charles Lane, was instrumental in exposing Glass' fraudulent writing.
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