Analysis Of Jimmy's World By Janet Cooke

Have you ever wondered how Journalists create false stories then face consequences after the false stories are published? Well, I certainly have! In the article “Jimmy’s World” by Janet Cooke, Janet Cooke creates a story that ends up being false and gets caught by the mayor with investigations showing that the story about Jimmy to be false causing Janet Cooke to face consequences. When Janet Cooke creates false stories, she loses multiple things such as prizes she may receive from writing the story, create ability of her work and most importantly her job. Although Janet Cooke chose the decision to write a false story; doing this can lead to many consequences. First, you may think that Janet Cooke’s punishment was too lenient, but in my
Personally, I would not take the risk and fabricate the truth because there is so much at risk such as losing my job, and having my family in danger of thinking how to survive in the world after losing my job. My job puts food on the table for my family, pays all the bills, and takes care of emergency they may come, and if I fabricate the story that would mean there’s a chance that I will lose my job, furthermore my family’s safety and future. Now, if I were to never get caught fabricating the truth, then I would do it with no doubt in my mind because it will make my job a whole a lot easier. If I can make my job easier, then I would and fabricating the truth would help my future job of being an Actuary easier in a major way. You may ask, “Have you ever told someone a story that was not entirely true?” In my life, I had told many stories that were not entirely true but was in best interest to help my friends. For example, one of my friends wanted to quit college and depend on an income of owning a liquor store. I told my friend that although owning a liquor store provides good income there is a big risk on depending on the liquor store as your financial supporter. I ensured him that liquor stores can go bad incomes can drop, and you can lose your store and all the money you made. The story that I created to continue my friend to keep going to college is me saying that I had a bunch of uncles that did what he wanted to do, but suffered the consequences and lost their investment leaving them with no degree to support themselves financially. Although fabricating the truth can be risky there are times in life where you need to take the risk to