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Prior to his firing, Glass was considered a rising journalistic star, writing for Rolling Stone, Harper’s and George magazines in addition to the The New Republic. His unraveling came in June 1998 when a reporter for another publication discovered that a company mentioned in one of his stories did not exist. A subsequent investigation found that 6 of the 41 articles Glass wrote for The New Republic were entirely fictional, while another 21 were blends of fact and fiction containing nonexistent organizations, events and people, such as the “Cops & Justice Foundation,” “Donny Tyes, a former California police officer,” “Daniel, a young professor at an Illinois college,” “James, a television news producer,” “a small skydiving industry newsletter” called Jump Now, and the “Church of George Herbert Walker Christ,” which supposedly believed that former President Bush was a reincarnated Jesus. The magazine’s apology appeared in “To Our Readers: A Report,” The New Republic, June 29, 1998. For further details of the fraud, see Ann Reilly Dowd, “The Great Pretender,” Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 1998.