History Of Fabulists, From Stephen Glass To Jonah Lehrer




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Summary: New County Mental Health Crisis Facility: Last year, designated mental health providers from King County's Crisis Commitment Service provided outreach for more than 6,000 people. On Monday, King County plans to open a new facility in south Seattle's Jackson Place neighborhood. Some say it's a more appropriate and cost effective solution. KUOW's Patricia Murphy reports. Inslee, McKenna And DelBene Go For Gold In Olympic TV Ads: It's down to the wire for candidates running for political office in Washington state. They have until Tuesday to woo voters in this year's primary. Three candidates are spending heavily on television ads that are running at a time when they are getting a lot of notice. KUOW's Deborah Wang has the story. A Recent History Of Fabulists, From Stephen Glass To Jonah Lehrer: Why do journalists make up facts? Adam Penenberg is a journalism professor at New York University who broke the story about former New Republic reporter Stephen Glass, which was made into the movie "Shattered Glass." We ask Penenberg about the recent case of journalist Jonah Lehrer who invented Bob Dylan quotes, how Lehrer and Glass compare, and other cases of quote–inventing fabulists.