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