They put me on the air. I took calls for 45 minutes
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Stephen Glass:
[Pitching his next article]
Every station on the radio is talking about it. Mike Tyson biting Evander Holyfield. And these are supposed to be news stations. So on Tuesday, I started calling a few of them, and I finally got through to one, a Bible-talk station in Kentucky. And I managed to convince the screener that I was a behavioral psychologist who specializes in human-on-human biting. I told the guy that I'd done all this extensive research on people who chomp flesh under extreme stress. Caitlin Avey:
What did they say? Stephen Glass:
They put me on the air. I took calls for 45 minutes
[Pitching his next article]
Every station on the radio is talking about it. Mike Tyson biting Evander Holyfield. And these are supposed to be news stations. So on Tuesday, I started calling a few of them, and I finally got through to one, a Bible-talk station in Kentucky. And I managed to convince the screener that I was a behavioral psychologist who specializes in human-on-human biting. I told the guy that I'd done all this extensive research on people who chomp flesh under extreme stress. Caitlin Avey:
What did they say? Stephen Glass:
They put me on the air. I took calls for 45 minutes
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Every station on the radio was talking about it
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Mike Tyson biting Evander Holyfield
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And these are supposed to be news stations
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so on Tuesday I started calling a few of them
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and I finally got through to one
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A Bible talk station in Kentucky
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And I managed to convince the screener
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that I was a behavioral psychologist
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who specializes in human on human biting
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I told the guy that I'd done all this extensive research
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on people who chomp flesh under extreme stress
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Movie Summary
The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.
Actors
Stephen Glass
Caitlin Avey
