Most journalists are flagellants by nature.
They prefer to apply the lash to outsiders, of course, but when one of their own violates the most basic tenets of the faith, they engage in a sort of ritual purification, full of thundering denunciations and psychoanalytic wailing. This year, there has been a lot of bloodletting, as not only Stephen Glass but two writers at the Boston Globe were discovered to have fabricated stories. Enough scribes have already attempted to divine the sources of his unravelling that further attempts are unnecessary. So are lots of people, especially those who have worked at the DP . It's unlikely that they all took the lessons of that program so to heart.