we entered into a game in which the rules were rigged against us, sometimes pushing us well past our point of comfort in order to remain in play." Peretz later said he knew nothing of the harassment. But Peter Beinart, an editor of the magazine, later said and wrote that when he reported one such incident in particular to Peretz—Wieseltier's harassment of Wildman—he was ignored, allowing the harassment to continue. Peretz responded to Beinart's recollection of the two men specifically meeting to discuss the matter by saying: "Peter never, ever, ever reported this to me.” He added: "I don't remember Sarah Wildman." Stephen Glass controversy During Peretz's tenure as editor of The New Republic, the magazine faced one of journalism's most infamous fabrication scandals. One of the magazine's then writers, Stephen Glass, was found to have fabricated portions of or the entirety of 27 of 41 stories he wrote for the magazine. Stories were found to have included some accurate reporting interwoven with fabricated quotations, scenes, and incidents. In some instances, stories were completely invented and contained no factual content. The Glass fabrications were "the greatest scandal in the magazine's history and marked a decade of waning influence and mounting financial losses", The New York Times later assessed. In popular culture In the 1993 novel Blue Hearts, set in Washington D.C., PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer included Peretz as the roman à clef character "Jonathan Perry". Lehrer wrote of the fictional Perry:He was a lightweight sociology professor of no special talent or accomplishment who owned and edited the magazine The New World because his wife was a shoe company heiress who bought it for him. He was a joke in all circles except those that believed money was important...[he] had made himself even more foolish by writing a recent column accusing the producers of...public television and radio, of blacklisting him for his strong pro-Israel views. It was an embarrassing incoherence that only the owner of a publication could have brought to public print. The incident described in Lehrer's novel apparently derived from real life. Press critic Jack Shafer noted that Peretz, in a column titled "Blacklisted," described having "leaned on NPR News Veep Bill Buzenberg for just a little mike (to no avail) and that he told PBS's Jim Lehrer he wouldn't turn down a date on The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, either." Lehrer was said to have never offered Peretz an