Hollywood based a movie, “Shattered Glass,” on a Vanity Fair article about the case by Buzz Bissinger, starring Hayden Christensen as Glass.ĩ:26 a.m., Dec.
Some weeks later, the magazine disclosed that 27 of the 41 pieces bearing his name had been wholly or partially fabricated. Kennedy Jr.'s George clamored for Glass’ freelance work.Īlmost immediately after Forbes and the New Republic established that the hacker story, entitled “Hack Heaven,” was fraudulent, the New Republic fired Glass. And not only the New Republic hot magazines such as Harper’s and John F. To Penenberg, the story looked transparently false, but editors and staff at the New Republic had been taken in by Glass’ wheedling, vulnerable personality, his projection of wide-eyed naivete, and - perhaps more than anything else - his skill at creating prose pictures that tended to reinforce their own prejudices about young conservatives, Wall Street bond traders and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. In short order, Glass was exposed as having not only fabricated the yarn and the firm, but his notes, records of phone conversations, even the imaginary firm’s website. The piece caught the eye of Adam Penenberg of Forbes’ digital unit, who thought it strange that he couldn’t find any evidence that the computer firm existed. The article that brought Glass down portrayed a teenage hacker being lavished with gifts and money by a computer company hoping to be spared his attacks. These turned out to be partially or wholly fabricated. His specialty was detail-rich reportage with a fluent prose style and a debunking edge: a piece about young male conservatives at a political conference secretly boozing it up, smoking pot and bringing girls up to their hotel rooms to humiliate a Wall Street firm where the traders took time off from their desks to pray to an icon of Alan Greenspan a memorabilia conference hawking Monica Lewinsky-themed items. Glass was a rising star at the New Republic when it was at the zenith of its influence among Clinton-era neo-liberals in Washington. (He also has returned the $10,000 Harper’s paid him for the piece.)īefore we get into the new questions raised by this sudden redress of a nearly 18-year-old offense, let’s take a quick look at the history of the Glass case.
By then, he’ll have to show that he’s come completely clean. He was turned down last year because of his past misdeeds but is eligible to reapply in 2017. No league victory since the turn of the year saw more speculation over Glass’s future and some of the 2,000 visiting fans at Motherwell on Saturday vented their anger at the now departed Dons manager.īottom-of-the-table St Johnstone visit Aberdeen on Tuesday.Why is Glass confessing now? He didn’t respond to my call to his office at a Beverly Hills law firm, where he serves as a non-lawyer staff member, but it’s reasonable to conclude that it’s related to his quest for a California law license. Having failed to qualify for the Europa Conference League group stage in August, a five-match losing streak in the cinch Premiership further increased the pressure, but four wins in December before the winter break eased some of the scrutiny on the ex-Shamrock Rovers assistant.
Glass replaced Derek McInnes, who had been at the helm for eight years, in March and in the process returned to a club where he made more than 100 appearances as a player between 19.Īfter leading Aberdeen to a fourth-placed finish last season, the 45-year-old has struggled for results this term and saw the Dons exit the Premier Sports Cup in August following a shock defeat to lowly Raith.
“The process to appoint a new manager will commence immediately and a further update regarding the club’s interim coaching team will be communicated shortly.”