If your mother says she loves you …

When Rolling Stone ran a now-discredited story on campus rape and New York followed with one about a supposed teenage multimillionaire, Rona Kobell thought back to her own early experience with a source who spun a fanciful resume. What she learned: "People lie to reporters. They tell a lot of little lies, and sometimes they tell big lies. They claim degrees that they never earned and jobs they never held. They lie to their friends, and they lie to themselves."

December 23, 2014

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