Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

Thank you, Stephen. You`re going to make me look very, very smart.
And now l`m at The New Republic.
Think about the workload he`s been carrying.
ls it pronounced ``juked`` or ``jukked``?
l know.
Then it goes back on paper, back to the writer, back to the copy editor...
Sure, go ahead.
The only one was ``Hack Heaven.`` He told me that.
What are you doing here?
lt`s what editors do.
This doesn`t look like a real business card to me.
The way he laughs whenever Marty tells a joke in the meetings.
Fabricated pieces.
-Night. -Night, Marty.
...we`ll all have to answer for what we let happen here.
Just finished the piece on ethanol subsidies.
-Hi, Steve. -Hey, sorry to be calling so late.
-How so? -Quite frankly, it doesn`t look real.
l don`t know, man, it seemed like a pretty good turnout to me.
He claims the Omni Shoreham doesn`t even have minibars.
Give him the number.
He`s Restil`s agent.
But you can`t--
...we`ll fact-check it again in the hope of removing it from the list.
l just thought that if l could get everybody off my back...
On a story like that, your notes are crucial.
Look, if you were calling for a comment on your story...
--called ``Loving Lewinsky`` that looks and works like a child`s doll....
Not in Highland Park.
But he could be very hurt by what you guys publish. His career.
lt`s good to stretch.
No, what?
Really? Because l`ve e-mailed them about a million times each.
...to show us how we used them improperly.
l guess l got him mixed up with another source.
GEORGETOWN UNlVERSlTY LAW CENTER
They`re closed at 3 on Sundays.
And l`m like, ``Wait a minute, how`d this happen?``
...from the Computer Security Center? Not too sure she exists either.
...and l thought you might be able to help me out.
You don`t have to talk to me if you don`t want to. lt`s fine.
She says, ``l didn`t invite Vernon Jordan that evening...
lt`ll have to remain between us till then. Would that be a problem?
But l`m being unfair.
After ``Jukt,`` was that an M as in ``Micronics``?
This is The New Republic, remember? Nothing slides here.
lf he were a stranger, a guy you were doing a piece about...
-Oh, l`m sorry, Steve. -Shit.
You`re fired. You`ve lost your job.
l just didn`t know what to do.
Julie Farthwork, Frank Juliet and lan Restil`s agent, Joe Hiert.
So l called 411, every area code in the state.
Did l do something wrong? Are you mad at me?
No. Absolutely not.
How about the commas in dates? Are we supposed to circle those too?
...having horrid nightmares of Mrs. Duke and her infamous red pen.
Well, yeah, so there`s Serbia, hidden, unknown to the world at large...
Disguised toast
-How`s he doing? -Well, he`s a wreck, of course.
Sims is so hands-on...
-He`s earned a lot of loyalty there. -Mostly by fighting with me.
To Wrap Around Your Slick Willy!
-He needs help. -Just get him in here.
-Hey. -Hey.
You don`t wanna go to law school, remember?
...immunity deals between hackers and the companies they`ve torched.
Drugs, binge drinking, hookers.... Gets pretty ugly.
These are all my notes.
l mean, lately, it`s everyone.
And l was doing the exact same thing you guys are doing:
l didn`t. That was added by the copy desk.
l`m going to read to you a list of suspicious titles, one by one.
lf l were to throw a party...
-How is it? -lt`s good.
Because it was such a dumb place to squeeze into.
Are we off the record?
We`ve gotta start calling some other places.
Are you at home, Steve?
He cooked a dozen of them, maybe more.
-Let`s go. -All right.
Looks like we have the Jukt website up now.
The tone of the magazine, l think it`s gotten too nasty.
You`ll probably get a voice mail. l usually do.
They`re fine. l`m just buried.
You have to know who you`re writing for.
There really is a George Sims. l`ve spoken to him a million times.
The youngest among them was Stephen Glass.
Melanie, can l get some copies, please?
How could you make up characters...