From the article: As disclaimers go, Glass' is weak, something he acknowledges. "It seemed best for the story if this were kept a little vague," writes Glass.

From the article: As disclaimers go, Glass' is weak, something he acknowledges. "It seemed best for the story if this were kept a little vague," writes Glass. "I thought it would be lousy and undermining and killjoyish if—at the end of a story—a radio host came on and said 'that wasn't true.' Seemed nicer and more artful to simply raise the possibility that it might or might not be true. I figured: the audience is smart. A little goes a long way." Edit: the money quote from Gladwell is good too: "My story was true in spirit," he e-mails. "The details were happily and gleefully and deliberately exaggerated and embellished and made up by me—and I am quite sure that not a single person in the audience the night I told it thought otherwise. Anyone who would fact check a tall tale like that either has no sense of humor or is on crack."