> >The Washington City Paper published a story on its Web site today
>>revealing that former New Republic writer Stephen Glass, whom
>>colleague Ruth Shalit once described as the "Milli Vanilli of
>>journalism," has obtained a clerkship with the D.C. Superior Court
>
>I thought that former New Republic writer Shalit had also embellished.
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Brill's Content - February 2001
The Truth According to Ruth Ruth Shalit, the former journalistic wunderkind who has been busted for plagiarism, now faces charges that she invented quotes.
By Lara Kate Cohen
Ruth Shalit's "The Name Game," a November 1999 feature for Salon.com about the cutthroat world of corporate branding, was written in her trademark style: biting, witty, and full of big words. "Welcome to big-league corporate naming," she wrote, "a Pynchonesque netherworld of dueling morphemes, identity buckets and full-scale linguistic sabotage." Many of those interviewed in the story, however, contend that it is Shalit -- once a rising star at The New Republic until she was twice caught plagiarizing there -- who is the linguistic saboteur.
Three people Shalit interviewed for the story say she fabricated some of their quotes. And although Salon ran a lengthy correction (eight months later), all three say the amended story still contains statements they never made.
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