liars

Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass are two of the most famous journalists for the wrong reasons. They were both guilty of fabricating or plagiarizing their articles. Jayson and Stephen were both young journalists when they messed up their careers. Blair however copied another journalists articles instead of making them up like glass. Another mistake Blair made was he put incorrect facts instead of what really happened. Both journalists worked for big news companies.  The New Republic and The New York Times both did investigations when their reporters were accused of fabricating or plagiarizing their stories. Neither journalist were watched or thought to be faking their stories until someone accused them of it. They were both recently accused of fabricating or plagiarizing stories.  

Glass sources
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelnoer/2014/11/12/read-the-original-forbes-takedown-of-stephen-glass/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Glass
http://ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id=1838

Blair sources
http://www.ajrarchive.org/article.asp?id=3019
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair
http://www.jaysonblair.com/

Stephen Glass story Spring Breakdown
http://wp.lps.org/akabour/files/2013/12/Spring-Breakdown-Stephen-Glass.pdf

  I think the article is really believable because it sounds like something a college student would do. Stephen quotes a lot of people and he includes facts about the cpac. cpac is something that is real and he used people that actually talked at the event. He used college students from multiple different schools so it would be hard to find them so he did not get caught. He was so believable because in the office he was such a nice guy and nobody would think he would make up a story. He wrote what people wanted to hear so everyone was entertained and would not think about if the story was true or not. Another reason Glass got away with it is because he talked about it in first person like he was there instead of in third person. This makes the reader believe he was at the event and witnessed the story happening. He put in a lot of quotes and added a lot of defined detail about what happened. He gave detail that someone would only know if he was there or if he made it up.