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About 10, l think, including me.
...and the answer would be yes.
...against anyone. He stands up and fights for you.
...so you can see where the hurdles are.
l have to say, Stephen, this looks very suspicious to me.
lt`s somewhere, l know. l`ll get that tomorrow.
And when we do, we`re gonna need a comment from you.
Every station on the radio is talking about it:
Go upstairs.
-You`re behind on the Polese piece. -l`ll get to it.
...and he handed them in as source material for the fact-check.
l had a description of it from so many sources, l thought l had it solid.
...if everyone you wrote about had to be photographed?
Okay?
The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Boston Globe--
So we hang up after he`s basically let these guys interrogate me for an hour.
Thank you.
Let's just get this done, okay?
Every delegate under the age of 25...
The good news is, reporters like that make it easy to distinguish yourself.
He asked me if l would drive him out to Dulles later tonight.
We`re looking into a conference held here a couple Sundays ago.
l`m sorry l yelled at you back there.
-That mean you`ll help me with it? -Why, do you have finals this week?
Oh, shit.
...looking for red flags, anything that feels uncorroborated.
A major software company with one phone line?
We were at this table.
Shut him up.
-You done with it, Rob? -Two days, tops.
Yes. Yes, it is.
Pull the goddamn car over.
l want a lifetime subscription to Playboy.
-You hate it. -No, it`s good. lt`s just a little rough.
...a Bible talk station in Kentucky.
We need to take a drive to Bethesda.
l was at the table with these guys.
Why didn`t you get this?
...and our losses are a joke.
-You got a minute, Steve? -Yeah.
Patriotic profits will have a hard time...
l was just getting some coffee.
Why don`t you just share the wealth, okay? Shit.
Next up. Amy?
He`s a little scary.
He hasn`t slept more than two hours in nine months.
lf your son`s not a doctor or lawyer, you`re nothing.
-Really? You`re not mad? -Of course not.
BY STEPHEN GLASS
So then Restil`s mother insisted that we move to one farther away.
The voice you heard on the telephone...
...or at least until next week. This is his email:
Thanks, Lew.
...every date, every title, every place or assertion is checked and verified.
We have a problem with the ``Spring Breakdown`` piece.
l told you, it`s my parents, okay? They never shut up about it.
lt`s kind of stupid, l know. lt`s silly. l`ll probably just kill it.
-Hey, Steve. -Hey, Steve.
l went through every search engine on the web. No matches found.
-The way they were circling him? -ls that what you want, Amy?
Will you guys help me with it? Please?
l was so sloppy, trusting my sources like that.
Some of them were virgins, and l wanted to keep it that way.``
Did you ever cook a piece when l was your boss?
You need a hand with the boxes, l`ll be in my office.
l mean, l`m over.
-That`s it? -Yeah.
lt was hailed as a breakthrough for internet journalism.
You`re a good reporter.
...that was my brother. l`m sorry.
Cool.
Okay? l`m....
lt didn`t seem strange before, but clearly there are problems.
...of everybody who`s a Michael Kelly person.
Steve.
...soon there won`t be a difference between Time and People.
Sorry?
Yeah.
-Sorry about that, l was just rushing. -Of course.
MONlCONDOMS
-What`d you get? -lt`s a voice mail.
-Okay. -Look...
The other night, l went to dinner with this guy from The Post.
Every editor, the fact-checkers, they all go through it one last time.
So you bring a coworker lunch if he`s under deadline.
...that....
You wouldn`t want something that gossipy?
...asking if any had heard of a National Assembly of Hackers...
lt`s just that this New Republic piece is a fucking sieve.
But we`re trying to handle it internally at this point.
Mr. Sims, thank you for calling me back--
-Think you have something for her? -l`ll get my box.
-...Monday morning he`ll be running it. -l`m gonna barf.
...that he won`t even let his secretary do an outgoing message.